NEWS BRIEFS

Brawl charge

A NORTH Vancouver man was charged with attempted
murder Sunday following a brawl on Robson Street early
Saturday.

Darry! Christopher Kirby, 20, faces the charge.

One man was stabbed tu death and two other men
were seriously injured in what the police describe as a
confrontation between rivals — members of an East
Vancouver Hispanic gang and the North Vancouver
Locals.

Telephone scams

THE NORTH Vancouver RCMP are warning local resi-
dents that telepnone scams are on the rise in North Van-
couver,

“A number of schemes have been identified in the past
month and the occurrences are now becoming more fre-
quent as Christmas draws near,” said RCMP Cpl. Gene
Slobod.

The the telephone scams that have been identified to
date sre:

@ a person calling and ideatifying himself as a relative
or 2 friend of a relative and then providing a hard-luck
story and asking for money;

@ telepiione solicitation for worthy causes in which the
caller arranges to have the money picked up at the vic-
tim’s house;

@ telephone calis advising that a person has won a
quantity of morey, but first has to pay a processing fee
before being given the money.

Slobod said that sny North Vancouver resident who is
the subject of a telephone solicitation should first find

out who they are dealing with by asking for certified
idextification. In the case of a charity, ask for an efficial
receipt and t2x number.

Anyore who is the victim of a telephone fraud scam
should contact the North Vancouver RCMP fraud sec-

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green sweater, told the judze that
he wanted to fire Wilson as his
lawyer.

““{ want to make sure the per-
son who represents me knows I’ve
been seeking medical attentizn.
The charge is so serious that 1
want to give myself any benefit I
can.

“My health has come back to
me while I’ve been in custody. I
think there were many issues that
should have been addressed by
Mr. Wilson that were not,’’ said
Henderson.

He said he wanted to fir
Wilson because the lawyer had not
been following his instructions
and refused to interview people in
the apartment building in which
Henderson lived prior to the
charges being laid against nim.
Henderson, who constantly

THE FOLLOWING people ap-
peared in North and West Van-
couver provincial courts recently
to face various charges:

Before Judge Jerome Paradis in
North Vancouver provincial court
on Nov. 12:

Barry Wayne O’Hara, 50, of
North Vancouver, was sentenced
to two concurrent four-month jail
sentences after he pleaded guilty
to stealing a Ford Mustang and
committing fraud over $1,000 be-
tween Sept. 29, 1991, and Dec.
24, 1991, in North Vancouver Ci-
ty. O’Hara was also ordered to
pay $7,500 in compensation to the
victim.

—— es

Family members present at trial

looked around the courtroom,
said he had tried to contact other
lawyers.

He said he had talked to some-

one named Peter Reiner over the
telephone to represent him but
that the person failed to show up
for an interview,

Henderson then turned his at-
tention to Crown counsel Henry
Reiner and suggested to Mr.
Justice Campbell that it was the
Crown counsel whom he had talked
to.

But Reiner told the court that
he had never met Henderson and
does not know anyone by the
name of Peter Reiner,

Mr. Justice Campbell had to
remind Henderscn twice that the
Crown counsel's first name was
Henry, not Peter.

Monday’s hearing was attended
by several members of Flather’s
family, who sat in the first row
behind the prisoner’s box.

Before Judge Jerome Paradis in
North Vancouver provincial court
on Nov. 6:

Christopher Foster, 19, of
North Vancouver, was fined $500
and placed on one year’s proba-
tion #fter he pleaded guilsy to
possession of marijuana on Nov.
8, 1991, in North Vancouver City.

Before Judge Reginald D. Gran-
dison in West Vancouver provin-
cial court on Nov. 4:

David Harold Lamarre, 41, of
West Vancouver, was fined $250
after he pleaded guilty to a
breaching a court order on June
25 in West Vancowver.

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