MARKETING and communi-
cations consultant Art Jones
has been active in al! types of
media, theatre and tourism in
Vancouver. In his “free” time,
the West Vancouver resident
keeps busy with civic organi-
zations and committees, and
also volunteers with the
Vexiety Club
Columbia, the St. Vincent's
Hospital
many others.

NEMORT SHOR

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friends, officer

EN August, Hackensack, NJ.
police stopped a weaving van
tog
Scotch. an inpaired 20-year
old man in the drivers sear
and an impaired 22 cearold
nan sitting in his laps appar-
ently, the twe men got stuck
UvINg fo esecinte oa seat
switch.

J+ ot

Cristal Campbell, 29) was
re-arresied on July E20 in
Boston atter pulling a prank
fo osetpe ind sponding tive
days on the lan Ato court
fearing on July 7, she urinat
ed on the door bor claimed
that she was preguant and
that her “water had: broken™
and thus was rushed toa hos:
pital be concerned court per-
sonnel (most of whom were
Males who accepted her claim
uncritieally). Campbell is
wanted on more than 50 con-
artist, warrants, and indeed,
after court personnel took het
to the hospital on July 7, she
escaped twice more before her
Jaly 12 capture.

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Yell what tora crowded the-
atre?: In June, Sasha
Aleksandr McClain Coe, 22,
was charged with reckless
endangermens in’ Sevierville,
Tenn., atter setting of fa string
oF firecrackers ina theatre
during the movie The Parrivt
The 78 panicked patrons
struggled angrily to get out
the deors but once outside,
they surrounded Coc and
held him for the police.

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July, CBS News and three
Newspapers jointly ottered to
underwrite DNA testing onan
already executed oni te
determine whether for the
first aAnown distance in,
history, the judicial system
had potan innocent mtn to
death. The subject of the test
woud be the Perry, Ga. man
comicted on conthcting ot:
denes of a T9ST rape murder
and cxecuted aa 1990. and
ati niade News of the Werrd
because of dns name: Bilis
Warne  beiker Abe, oan
Avgiist, “Pesas Gov George
Wo Bush issued ao pardon to
comicted rapist: Roy Wayne
Criner (he victim was abe
mordered, buat Criner was
charged only with the rapes
because his DNA did) not
match that found on the vie-

tim, as reported ins News of

the Weird ia fuly 2000.

Jud

Abe, in the Last Month:
In oa settlement: of fraud
charges with the Florida atior-
hey general, a psychic hotline
agreed ta hire only people
who swore in writing that
they had psvehic powers. An
off-duty police officer, out on
bond after his arrest on suspi-

dion of DUT in the deaths of

two motorists, was himself hit
by a drunk driver a week Sater
while out bieveling (Kailua,
Hawaii). A | 54-year-old ex-
Marine stabbed bis new son-
in-law (Atv Force) during a
heated discussion of which
military service is best
{Linwood Township, Minn.).

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