mur

ler

RCMP ARE continuing their investigation into the murders
of two strippers whose bodies were found on Mount
Seymour but have so far made no arrests, Staff Sgt. Tom

Hill said Tuesday.

And police are remaining tight-
lipped about a recent tape re-
cording of a man who called the
booking agency that handled one
of the murdered women.

“That's not something that’s in
the public’s interest to release,”’
said Hill.

The body of Darlinda Lee Rit-
chey, 27, was found Dec. 14 by a
man jovking for a Christmas tree
near the base of Mount Seymour.
A police search of the area the
next day uncovered the body of
Karen Ann Baker, 20, a few metres
from Ritchey.

Cause and time of death have

Police have refused to comment

Weather:

Friday and Saturday,
periods of rain. Highs
near 7°C.

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after heavy rainfalls raised the water level of creeks south of Lions
Bay. Traffic was stopped for an hour.

nat yet been determined but police
believe Baker had been there
longer than Ritchey.

“Time is a pretty difficult
thing,”' said Hill. ‘We're assum-
ing that the time of Karen Ann
Baker's death was earlier.”

Recent disturbing telephone cails
and threats to a Vancouver agency
that books exotic dancers are being
handled by the Vancouver Police,
Hill said, but noted information is
exchanged between the two police
forces on a regular basis.

inue

robe

on speculation the two disappeared
on the same day or knew each
other. “We haven't released any
information,"’ said Hill.

“We're not about to release
anything one way or the other,”
Hill said.

A North Vancouver woman's
body found Dec. 19 in’ Van-
couver’s Mount Pleasant area is
not believed to be linked to the re-
cent murders of Ritchey or Baker.

“We certainly haven't written it
off as not being related,’’ Hill said
of the death 26-year-old Leah
Anne Reynolds.

Vancouver Police Cpl. Steven
Pranzl said Tuesday there is no
new information on the recent
threats to the Vancouver booking
agency handling exotic dancers.

“Ip would be very difficul: to
identify the callers,’’ said Pranzl.

“NEWS ore Mike Waketleld

A HIGHWAYS Department official advises a motorist on the
Squamish Highway to avoid travelling on the route Monday morning

hareholders bounce
taxi firrn’s directors

NORTH SHORE Taxi shareholders elected a new board of
directors Sunday after dissatisfaction with the former
board’s performance was registered by board member and
past company president Rich Henderson.

In an interview Tuesday,
Henderson said the board was not
doing its jod properly.

The new board was elected in
mid-term by the company’s 52
voting shareholders Dec. 28 after
the former directors voted for a
board review, said Henderson.

Three of the five previous board
members were returned to their
positions.

“The board was, in my opizion,
not doing its job properly because
of some differences in the way the
job wes being carried out,”’ said
Henderson. “There was a member

By STEPHEN BARRINGTON
News Reporter

we felt was not doing the business
as it should have been done.”

Henderson said the board review
was not over company finances.
“As a matter of fact our profits
are up and the company is
operating on a positive track.”

Elections to the five-member
board were effective immediately
and the board will decide on a new
president at its upcoming meeting
scheduled for Jan. 7.

Wanting to keep the company
on its “positive track’? was the
reason Henderson called for a
board review. ‘‘The way things
were going it was impossible (to
keep the company on its present
positive track),’’ said Henderson.

The company’s taxi rates are not
expected to change under the new
directors.

“T don’t see that (a rate in-
crease) happening,”’ he said. ‘‘!
can’t imagine anything that drastic
— but then again I’m only one
member of the board.’’

Board members usually serve a
one-year term with the next elec-
tions in March.

Acting general manager Masoud
Fanai said the company employs
275 people.

3 - Friday, January 2, 1987 - North Shore News

Thieves hit
empty homes

NORTH YANCOUVER RCMP are asking the public to report any
suspicious activities in their neighborhoods following 9 series of
break-in attempts on empty North Vancouver houses.

Last Monday a woman living in the 800‘biock of East 13th Street
heard a knock at the’ door of her basement suite but did not
answer,

Immediately thereafter a culprit or culprits attempted to force
her door open.

sone called the RCMP but the suspects had fled when police ar-
rived.

Police sources said similar break-ins attempted with crowbars,
screwdrivers and wood chisels have been aitempted recently.

On Dec. 22 a door on a house on the 700 block of East 13th
Street was forced open and $5,000 worth of property was stolen.

Police sources said people offen sce suspects knocking on doors
and even attempting to force doors open but seldom contact police.

Gas attendant
accused of theft

THE ATTENDANT of 9 North Vancouver Super-Save gas station
was charged with possession of narcotics, theft under $1,000 and
public mischief after he reported a robbery last Monday.

North Vancouver RCMP sources said they charged Dwayne
Robert Boucher, 19, after suspecting his robbery report was bogus.

Boucher, an attendant at the Super-Save gas station at 350 East
Low Level Road, reported an armed robbery at approximately 8
p.m. Dec. 29.

He said a male entered the station carrying a handgun, asked for
his wallet and then told him to leave.

Boucher claimed he walkd to a telephone booth and called
police. After investigation Boucher and an accomplice were subse-
quently arrested.

Warrant issued
for missing man

‘A WARRANT has been issued for a 20-year-old man after he faii-
ed to appear in court to answer three charges of assault causing.
bodily harm. :

Randall Joseph Scott, whereabouts unknown, was charged in
connection with Jan, 25 and Sept. 14 Incidents in which he alleged-
ly assaulted three people.

When Scott failed to appear for his court date, North Vancouver
provincial court Judge J.D. Layton ordered the bench warraat |
issued. .

Assault, mischief

charges stayed

CHARGES of assault and mischief laid against a 35-year-old ‘Co- |
quittam man were stayed after he appeared in provincial ‘court
Tuesday. ,

Gary Brian Holtby, who appeared before North Vanconver pro-
vincial court Judge J.B. Paradis, was. charged with. ass caulting a”
female and causing damage to a door, Belonging to her: following a a
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