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Anna Marie 0’Angeio

News Reporter
dangelo@nsnews.com

ALLEN Richardson
had lived quietly in
Canada since 1975.

Buc things changed for the
50-vear-old West Vancouver
resident last year when
Mounties arrested him at work
in Vancouver.

Richardson is an American
prison escapee. He bolted trom
jail in che early 1970s.

Richardson, whose real
name is Christopher Perlstein,
had been sentenced to four
years in jail for selling seven bits
of LSD worta $20 to an
» undercover police officer. He

was a student at Rochester
Institute of Technology when
he sold the LSD move than 25
years ago. Richardson escaped
from jail weeks into serving his
sentence. The American legal
system caught up to him fast
year.

‘ District Attorney Howard

y Relin, of Munroe couniry in

New York state, is aware of the
public support for Richardson
. In Vancouver.

Relin pointed out that-

Richardson admitted in his pre-
” sentencing investigation that
he had sold LSD so often to
students that he cauld not
recall] the undercover police
« transaction, Relin’ said the
judge considered Richardson’s
+ “yappnant? campus drug selling
when he gave the four-year jail
sentence. If the LSD transac-
. tion had been ait isolated inci-
dent, Relin said Richardson
would have gotten 12 months’

probation or “shock proba-

tion” thar involved about two
months jail and five years’ pro-
bation.. The maximum. sen-

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Relin said Richardson
would likely have been paroled
after serving a year and a day of
his sentence. Instead he
escaped from jail.

“the defendant — really
brought this upon himself,”
said Relin.

He pointed out thar New
York state has a law that anvone
who starts a prison sentence

must finish it. Relin hoped that

something could be worked
out between New York correc:
tions and Canada so that Relin
does not have to return to the
United States,

But he — said = ‘that
Richardson’s good conduct
since his escape docs not
absolve him of the crime. °

For the last 16 years,
Richardson has worked as a
senior research technician at a
particle and nuclear physics
research lab called TRIUMF,
which is located on the UBC
campus.

TRIUME spokesman fim
Hanlor: said Richardson has
not been working since his
arrest because he doesn’t have
a work permit in Canada.
Hanlon said Richardson has
been on an unpaid leave of
absence. .

Richardson did not return
News calls. His wife Amatia
said they were awaiting the
United States judgment relat-
ing to her husband’s prison
escape.

“Everything that has been -

said has been very good and
supportive and we are very
heartened by it,” said Amalia.

Richardson’s = Canadian
lawyer Michael Bolton said
humanitarian issues are
involved in the judgment’s
considerations.

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Disney, where to some extent
you take something that is
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Added Inglis, “I think the
crucial thing fs that this would
add a third clement which can
link with the other ovo (major
North Shore tourist draws
Capilano Suspension Bridge
and Grouse Mountain
SkyRide). [ think it’s feasible
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totally different experience
than they have in Vancouver.”

Hf Marine City project plan-
hers get everything on their
wish list, the attraction will fea-
ture the stern and engine of the
Cape Breton, a Victory Ship
built in 1944 at the North
Vancouver site. The ship is
presently moored on_ the
Lower Lonsdale waterfront.
The Artificial Reef Society of
B.C. plans to sink the 10,000
tonne cargo ship near Gabriola
Island fater next year.

Inglis said the NVMA and
DEEP are negotiating with the
reef’ society for the parts of the
ship they'd like to secure. Inglis

said Tom Ward, the former.

CEO of BC Ferrics, CFI and a
former president of Vancouver
Shipyards, is under contract to
determine the feasibility, logis-
tics and cost of salvaging the
engine and stern of the ship.
Inglis anticipates the informa-
tion will be available in
December.

Sunday, October 31, 1999 — North Shore News - 5

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NEWS photo Terry Peters

ROBIN Inglis and Virginia Nuytten show some models of a $20-miltion tourist
attraction proposed for the Versatile Shipyard site in North Vancouver City. :

Said North Vancouver
Crown counsel and Artificial
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Jay Straith, “As much as possi-

" ble should be preserved, if ir

can be done. It’s a huge engi-
Necring issue, getting the stern
off. The engine is quite
straightforward.”

he Victory Ship parts
would complement examples
of deep-sea technology accu-
mulated by Nuytten, the inven-
tor of the Newtsuit (a deep div-
ing suit) and various subs.
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