2 ~ Friday, May 4, 1990 - North Shore News

Trial opens for $80m drug bust case

THE TRIAL of West Vancouver resident James Lloyd fiurford and five other men charged with conspiracy to ‘import and traffic marijuana heard the opening statements from Crown counsel Monday in Vancouver county court.

Prosecutor Anne MacKenzie told the court four men were saught Sept. 24, 1987 bv RCMP officers near Rattenbury Island transferring marijuana ‘rom the motor vessel Trojan io another boat — the Ocean Wonder — and a nearby houseboat.

Trojan, a volice boat carrying more than three tonnes of mari- juana on loan from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency. was towed

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to the island by Ocean Wonder.

The Trojan’s captain, she said, had faked mechanica} probiems in hopes that the transaction would occur in daylight.

The arrests of six men and another two charged with co-or- dinating the transfer ended 2 two- year long investigation that spann-

ed four countries on either side of the Pacific Ocean.

MacKenzie alleges the group thought it was receiving a shipment of a 19-tonne order from Thailand via Hong Kong.

John Ellis and Gurujot Singh Khalsa (a.k.a. Robert Alvin Taylor), two white Sikhs from Sterling, Virginia, are alleged to have made a deal with police in- formants John Corman and Phillip Christianson to ship the narcotic to a so-called ‘‘safe location’’ on the west coast of North America.

Ellis and Corman, according to the Crown, participated in a 1985

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attempt to import 22 tonnes of Thai marijuana into San Francisco that was intercepted by the U.S. Coast Guard.

MacKenzie said Ellis wanted to try again, using the west coast of Canada where the **risk is minimal and opposition almost absent."’

Several sites along the B.C. coast as far north as the Queen Charlotte Islands were discussed. but Rattenbury island, near Port Hardy on Vancouver Island, was chosen at the I Ith hour.

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its transter to the -nainland. She said tne. ven purchased farmland outside Vancouver .o store the marijuana, which nad an estimated street -atlue of $80 :nillion.

Charzed along with Hurford are Frané eter Bailes Paul Richard Brage. hristophes Kemp Angus, Christopner Thomas Speedie and Richarci dale Stewart.

Two thers also charged, Daryl Jacob stcinkopf of West Van- couver ind Charles Henry Grizzle of Aspen, Colorado, will be tried ata later date.

The ‘rial is expected to last six to Nine weeks.

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