Call for help

THE WEST Vancouver Police Department is crediting a West Vancouver business with helping to find a three- year-old giri who had cailed for help.

Const. Jamie Gibson said West Vancouver's Intertec Telecommunications received a telephone call at 3:10 p.m. on Tuesday, July 13, from a young girl who said: “Mommy is dead,”

Intertec employee Bill Campbell and his associates kept the yourg girl on the line and called the West Van- couver Palice.

The police then contacted BC Tel security, which immediately began searching through several telephone

~ ines to trace the girl’s call.

The telephone trace ted to a Surrey address, where Surrey RCMP were then dispatched to the scene.

When the police arrived they discovered the three- year-old girl, named Samantha, had somehow dialled In- tertec’s telephone number without her father’s know- ledge.

Gibson said the girl’s mother was recovering from re- cent surgery and was asleep when her daughter called the West Vancouver business.”

. “We greatly appreciate the concern and efforts put forth by Intertec staff and BC Telephone in bringing * Samantha's drama to a happy ending,’’said Gibson.

He added that the police did not know why the young —

girl had decided to call Intertec.

‘Woman robbed —

NORTH |VANCOUVER RCMP are scarching for two men who robbed an elderly woman in her apartment at about 3:30 p.m. on Thursday, July 15.

Staff Sgt. Peter Eakins said the victim, who lives in a highrise apartment building located at Keith Road and Lonsdale’ Avenue, had let two.men into her spartment “/ after they asked fo use her telephone.

Qnee inside, the pair tied the woman up with the tele-

phove. cord and stole 2 small amount of cash, & ‘vatch’ ““, gd some jewelry.

. “The victim was not physically injured but was shaken ve by the ordeal,” said Eakins. One suspect is described as a white male, tall, of slim build, with dark hair and a clean-shaven face. ° ‘The seconé suspect is described as a white male, about - ."§°6’” (167 cm) tall, clean-shaven and wearing glasses. . Both suspects are in ‘their 30s. . ' akins said people. should not allow strangers into ‘their. homes. sand should keep their doors chained and “Jocked at all times,

- Weapons seized

A LARGE number of weapons have been seized recently by.a mew two-man foot patrol unit deployed by the West ‘Vancouver Police Department.

’ Two police officers have. been walking a beat on Fri- -day and Saturday rights from 7 p.m. to 2 a.m. from be- tween Ambleside Beach and Join Lawson Park since Jane... :

“Tt (foot, ‘patrol unit) is te target problems we were

“running into in the early spring of gang fights and youth fights in local business parking areas,’ said Const. Jamie Gibson. as He added that the police know most of the youths _ they encounter while walking the beat and: several ; weapons have been seized from youths recently. : "We're getting a lot of knives, but there are also a lot of baseball bats,’’ said Gibson.

W V man sentenced on

North Shore drivers guilty of drinking

RECENT CONVICTIONS in North Shore courts have resulted in fines and penalties, including a driving suspension, for drinking and driving related offences: NORTH VANCOUVER: Vijendra Prasad, 36, 208-161 West 4th St., North Vancouver (impaired, $375 fine, one-year driving suspen- sion.); Carman Wayne Hearn, 25, 11-2625 Lonsdale Ave., North Vancouver (over .08, $550 fine, one-year driving suspension); Hugh Charles O'Neil, 33, 33294 Bevan, Matsqui (impaired, one- day jail, 18-month driving suspension).

WEST VANCOUVER: Gordon James Bridgman, 34, 4516 Bowness Rd., N.W., Calgary (over .08, $375 fine, one-year driving suspension).

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A WEST. “Vancouver resi- “dent was sentenced on Fri-

_ day,” ‘June 25, to two years:

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“By Anna Marie D’ Angelo News: Reporter

oi George ‘Buchan Simpson, 41, - was jaiied in connection with an “incident involving. a Vancouver < prostitute on Aug. 19 and Aug. 2, 1991,

Crown counsel Richard ‘Cairns

said Simpson made a deal in Van-

os couver with the prostitute for $150 -in exchange for 1/4 hours of sex.

: Simpson ~ drove the woman in “his truck to an unidentified place

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‘asked for the money and Simpson

said he had only $80, said Cairns. ‘The woman subsequently turned her head and Simpson produced a weapon which he ‘placed at her forehead, said Cairns...

Cairns said the woman did not see the weapon, but Simpson told her it was a gun.

The woman was subsequently

raped with a metal object, said.

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Cairns said Simpson drove the woman to the Horseshoe Bay area and called her a cab.

Simpson was later. arrested in Vancouver by the Vancouver City Police while he attempted to ar- range services from another pro- stitute.

The tria} took four days to _ complete. Simpson pleaded “hot ' guilty to the charge.

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