FOUR NEW | ‘burglary. related
“charges were! laid against a
North Vancouver man on
Wednesday in connection with

a..police’ seizure of $25,000 - ©

worth of stolen computers.

By Anna Marie D ‘Angela’
Sears reer aan CSR
News Reporter

Richard Warner, 25, was arrested
last: week: and charged with break
and enter, possessing stolen proper-
‘ty, possessing a prohibited weapon
(a crossbow), possessing house-
breaking instruments and breachivg
probation. i

. Warner learned that he was being
charged with two more Vancouver
:business break and enters and two

more counts of possessing stolen

property when he ‘appeared briefly

in North Vancouver provincial court.”

“Is there more charges?” said
Warner from: the prisoner's box as

“he looked over a copy of the original:

charges.: ;

.. Warner has been in jail since his
“arrest June-14,°.

‘ Judge Jerome’. Paradis said a
show cause hearing would be sched-

-uled this morning to determine if |

“Warner should be released from jail.

A. youthful-looking Warner. was
clean shaven; with ‘short hair. and
wearing casual dress.

Warner: appeared: dramatically
different from what he looked like
‘last March in B.C: Supreme Court.
At that time, Warner had his hair
slicked back and wore an expensive

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silk suit when he was sentenced to
two years’. probation and) time
served in connection with a guilty
plea relating ( 23° charges of
$250,000 worth of stolen business

computers,

Mr. . Justice Kenneth = C.
Mackenzie heard Warner give van
articulate plea for leniency before
granting the probation.

Warner, was kept in jail -six
months before his March sentencing

as he continued to re-offend after 22 .

charges were laid against him in
June 1994,

Warner is an admitted. heroin
addict with a criminal record.

The North Vancouver RCMP
described him as one of their most
active business computer burglars

_ when he was charged in 1994,

Crown. lawyers in © North
Vancouver involved in the March
sentencing had made a deal with
Warner's lawyer to ask for an 18-
month jail term in exchange for a
guilty plea to the charges he faced at
the time.

According to the Criminal Code
of Canada, one. house: break and
enter conviction carries a maximum
life sentence.

A break and enter of a place
other ;than a “dwelling-house”, a
place of business for example, car-

‘ries a maximum [4-year jail sen-

tence.

At. least two > outraged victims
whose businesses were named in the
1994 charges wrote letters of protest

to government officials concerning,

- what they viewed was a light sen-

tence. ° aoe

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