4- Friday, January 19, 1996 — North Shore News

West Van entrepreneur | video clerk taped up

ordered to pay parent

WEST VANCOUVER entre-
preneur Sam Yehia has been
ordered by the B.C. Supreme
Court to pay back his parents
more than $600,000 in loans
and interest.

By Brent Mudrv
Contributing Writer

Justice Mary Saunders re
the claims of Yehia. now 40, that his
repayment agreements were made
under dur The judge noted the
once high-flying restaurateur was
experienced in the business world
nd the courts, rendering — his

nee claims unsuccessful.

mined-suecess career as

a restaurateur made hit a here of

the Kitsilano Beach crowd and the
enemy of the Vancouver Parks
Board in the mid- 1980s. From the
prime fecation of his Sami's restau-
rant at the foot of treet, the 30-
yeareold Yehia sent fleet-footed
food-runners to tike orders) and
deliver take-out items on the beach,
without having a parks board con-
sion.

When Sami’s closed, Yehia
opened Senor Frog's at the same
location, which made a similar well-
publicized splash in Vancouver City
Hall before ending its run and shut-
ting down ‘The restaurant scuffled
with city hall when it converted its
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seating 0 boost ity capacity
tia hoped to defend his case in
a regular trial, but Justice Saunders
rejected the move in her judgment,
released Tuesday in) Vancouver.
After a one-day preliminary hearing
fast month, the judge awarded
300,000) plus interest. to) Louna
Yehia and $285,000 plus interest to
Edward Yehia.

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AN 18-YEAR-OLD employee of
Rogers Video had his wrists and
ankles bound with tape Jan. 15
during an armed robbery at the
Marine Drive store.

The employee said that two
men wearing black ski masks
entered the store in the 900-block
of Marine Brive and. threatened
him with a handgun, according to
a North Vancouver RCMP

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employee was locking up the store
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employee was left bound ina back
roont and the men emptied tills
and pried a safe.

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suspect is approximately 1.9 m
(6°3") and 100 kg (220 Ibs.)

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