Anna Marie D'Angeio News Reporter sdangelo@usnews.com A 19-year-old North Vancouver man was denied bail yesterday in connection with charges of assault with a pellet gun and a baseball bar. The charges stem. from what appears to be a racially motivated retaliation 10 an Oct. 2 attack ata Lynn Valley convenience sore. A friend of the accused almost had his hand severed in the incident. Jeff David McLean ‘along with his co-accused Spencer Joseph Hutson (denied bail last week} are charged with assault with a pellet gen against Hassan ‘Attaci-Dizaji and Arsalan Zadehsotam on Oct. 5. One man was hit in the head with a peller alleged - My shot by McLean, the other was hit in the leg by a pellet allegedly: shot by Hutson, said prosecuting “Crown lawyer Leslie Burrell during the bail hearing. The Crown alleged that Mel.ean and Hutson, 19, went to the Lonsdale RecCentre last, Thursday “to get some Iranians.” ‘The man injured in the forehead by the pellet required medical attention. He arid his friends went to Lions Gate Hospital (LGH). In a bizarre nist, » another. ‘acquaintance. of |. McLean’s, , Issac _ Christopher Yacoback, was at LGH on Oct. 5 - ently checking out the hospital in a bid to protect his injured friend, Ryan Vena. Vena, 19, had been knifed ctin a 7-Eleven attack at Mountain Highw: ay and Lynn : Natley Road. He. sustained a Punctured lung and | 5 appar- : et feud bh Lions Gate Hospital scene of chase with ball bats nearly had his hand severed. Witnesses described his attackers as being of Iranian descent. Yacoback feared * Tranians” would attack Vena in the hospital. According te Crown information, Yacoback saw the injured group atthe LGH emergency depart- ment after they arrived from the ree centre. He called McLean to say that Iranians were at the hos- pital to kill Vena, McLean went to the hospital and allegedly committed the assault with the baseball bat against Attaei-Dizaji. Meanwhile police had been called to the hospital wath a report that an ambulance attendant was oving assaulted. According to the Crown, white males were seen arriving, at GH with basebail bats and chasing peo- ie. The Crown prosecutor said that the men at the ree centre were not connected to the 7-Eleven inci- dent but “happened to be Iranian.” “The situation is totally out-of control,” said Burrell. She asked that McLean be detained in cus- tody pending the outcome of his charges on grounds that he may commit a further offence and in the public’s interest. McLean's iawyer Robert Reid asked for his client to be released into the community with his parents as “jailers.” McLean's s separated parents fe. of 5-2 North Vancouver. District: council vored to’ dopt a bylaw that fines vehicle owners $50 for idling y. their engines over three minutes.: Accordin; to Section’ 6(d) of, the Nuisance Abatement By law, . 0 person S| ‘opera all cause or permit a motor vehicle engine to be lettin! for more tian three minutes in a 60- minute period.” JThe original 1 motion from district staff called for a two-minute. .’ ut_an amendment by Coun. Ernie Crist and seconded nged the wording to three minutes! ‘apply -to vehicles in’ taffic or undergoing ©: tepairs at an approved ‘garage. It also excuses emergency vehicles and” engines ‘that.are’ being ‘used to power equipment ancillary to the. . hicl Ho ‘it does include Coun Done. MacKay-Dunn_ repairs made on running imum peril of $2 000 for ‘ach oifence. ued the necessity for ensuring *° - law: was “practical and ‘enforceable? ‘and ‘warned -counell against making it tao “draconian.” He lobbied unsuccessfully for a ut th particular reference, to _seosting rchi- = mie car” going’ down a ing the Braille metho . going from ne lane to Whe: sup ported the. two: minute limit, the bylaw?" s intent is to be a “fairly b unt instrument” ity, in the North Shore. “We're trying to be’ part‘of an effort, Canada-wid to prevent os 6 million litres of fuel from being used and prevent more than 14. oanes of 2 greenhouse gas:..: from entering the atmosphere ; iButing to climate ‘change. Harris said: u Harns pointed our that provisions are in place. for weather éon- © She said thai ae d * tempersture is colder than #1, you are fined. If i : ou may also ; said the idea jme “teeth in the bylaw” and allow. for enforcement, gs and properties manager Don Sigston said it will help to deal with back-room auto repair | businesses. igston, who: uthored the recommendation, added that the best.” r y 0 warm up. a car is to drive it. He said ‘three'minutes was the - ‘amount of time needed to. wad up ‘diesel and gas engine’ the norm for, us ’ hic les and that a three-minu ¢ idling niaximum ost commuuniities. “My is 2.1983 Jetta and it takes a lor longer than 30 seconds -, : _ FIREFIGHTERS and municipal « workers tackled an oil spill at; the bottom of 21st Street in. to “defrost! the windshield, ‘countered Coun. :Lisa. Muri. “If-you : ng around wat with frosty windshield, then yout take your i . the lower half of 21st- and a‘portion of. Friday, October 13, 2000 - North Shore News - 3 were in the courtroom, Reid said there were pwo sides of the story and that his client recognized the Iranian young men atthe rec centre as being involved in the 7- Eleven attack. Judve Jerome Paradis said that McLean appeared te become enraged with people that had aothing to do with the 7-Eleven incident except for their race. “There appears to Ue a war going on out there,” said Paradig. The judge said it was “risky” to release MeLean and detained him on grounds of the pub- lic’s imerest. MeLean, dressed in a black casual clothes and jeans, said nothing and looked at his par- ents belore quickly leaving the court rooni through the prisoner's door. ‘Phe proceedings saw no publication ban request- ed or ordered. On Wednesday, the same judge sentenced Yacoback to 14 days in jail for possessing pepper spray in connection ‘with the LGH incident. Yacoback, 22, also received 12 months probation. 8 According to court information, Yacoback was patrolling around LGH on the watch for his injured friend Vena when. 2 North Vancouver Mountie noticed him. The Mountie was in the police office across the. street. The Mountie saw Yacoback put something in the bushes. Police retrieved the pepper spray that was in the bushes and Yacoback’ was charged. During sentencing, the judge called - Yacoback melodramatic in his endeavours at the hos- pital. No charges have been laid in the 7-Eleven inci- dent, but North Vancouver: RCMP centinue. to investigate. ~” Market. | t0 25, “* Case: NEWS photo Cindy Goodmen. | “YACHT broker. Danial Snell ‘is geared up for ‘Thunderbird Marina's * annual marina garage sale, on now to Oct. 15. Up for’ grabs: power and" 7 Sallboats,t maps, charts, 3 and boating equipment. | : “nidentified ‘ruck at A: 30° p. m.; overing : basin but Marine Drive.: * Peat moss‘ was used | to absorb the oi ‘on the roadway. The public works depart "<> mgent’collected: the: moss arid covered th “road with sand ~ blue!’ Thieves target — grocery stores TWO armed men escaped empty handed Tuesday after attempting to rub the G.H. Grocery store. on Chesterfield Avenue. According to the North Vancouver RCMP, the men walked into the store at approximately 9:45 p.m. with their faces masked. One held a knite while the other. carried a can of pepper spray. The store owner grabbed : a knife and chased the nwo; away. One of the suspects spraved pepper spray as he left. A woman leaving her car’ in the area was hit by the spray and later treated by paramedics... Police describe the pair as: re a male age 15 to ‘18, 1.68m — 5° 6") to 1.73m (5° 8”), slim: Gril, with brown hair. He: wore a blue and white ban: - danna over his face and wore a blue jacket with a hood; Ba male age 15 to 18, 5° 6". to 58”, siim build. He was ~ wearing, beige, baggy pants. “Meanwhile on Monday. night, two men armed with a” gun and pepper spray held. up- a. convenience: store in’ the 400-block* of . East * Keith’ Road. According -to. police, the men brandished a black” ~ pistol and large can of pepper: spray before making off with: - an undisclosed amount: of © cash. “ . The heist touk . place at 10:30) p.m. at: ‘WVinston No one was injured., The thieves fled in a dark minivan. with ‘stolen as being’ Caucasians ith chin ser Callers’ are "asked to refer: t 2000- 34041, hands on some. rocks bel “according to West Vancouve ‘pads Asmall amount of oil is believed to