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MARGARET Trudeau and her eldest son Justin Trudeau were at Mount Seymour Friday to support an avalanche awareness campaign. Michel
Trudeau died In November 1998 after an avalanche swept him into Kokanee Lake. This weekend was proclaimed Avalanche Awareness Days.

Anna Marie D'Angelo
News Reporter adangelo@nsnews.com

A North Vancouver Mountie is being
investigated following allegations that he
was with a Vancouver prostitute in an
unmarked police vehicle when he
“ignored” commands by Vancouver City
Police.

Paul MacGregor and the prostitute, Elizat 5, Were
pepper sprayed when they didn’t cooperate with Vancouver City
Pohice officers during, a tactical (high risk) stop on Nov. 19,
1999, according to a search warrant obtained by the News

MacGregor has worked in the drug, section cf the North

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Search warrant allegations put
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Vancouver RCMP for more than three years. He has been a
Mountie for 114

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were made.

investi-

sUgation for possible Criminal Code and

. Mounties have recommended charges in

Jamie Graham, head of the North

gation and an inv
RCMP Act violatior
the case, according to Su
Vancouver ROMP, on Friday
According to the search warrant, the 21- “old: prostitute
had already turned two “tricks” that night when MacGregor
stopped his vehicle co lk to her at Cambie and Cardero.

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Bob Mackin

News Reporter
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MICHEL Trudeau
was doing what he
loved most in 2
place that’s like
heaven on earth
when he was killed
by an avalanche,
says his mother
Margaret Trudeau.
The divorced wite of ca:
prime minister Pierre Trudeau
was with her son Justin. at
Mount Seymour on) Friday.
They were speaking at an event
to mark the begianing of
Avalanche Awareness Da
Jan. 14 to 16. Michel died
while hiking Nov. 13, 1998, at
Kokanee Lake B.C. when an
avalanche roared down a slope.
— : He was 23, Efforts to recover
NEWS photo Terry Peters his baxdy failed.

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fonst. MacGregor inquired as to how much it would cost
for sexual relations,” according to a search warrant sworn by Cpl.
Chris Kennedy, head of the Economic Crime Unit of the North
Vancouver RCMP.

The prostitute st:
oral sex and sexual

MacGregor drove with the prostitute to the Chevron station
at 1026 Powell in Vancouver. MacGregor was driving a North

‘ancouver RCMP SUV. The vehicle was a 1999 Nissan
Pathtinder.

MacGregor withdrew money from a bank machine at the gas
station. He then drove with tie prostitute to a seciuded spot near
the 1500-block of East Georgia.

They were in the process of engaging in sexual intereeurse
when an unkaown female, thought to be another working girl,

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