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RUSSELL Keith Durocher loaded up a Wal-Mart sports bag with 12 pairs of jeans on June 13 at Capilano Mall.

The 39-year-old Vancouver man walked passed the cashiers without pa ing for the jeans or the bag, The stolen goods were worth $263.

They cost Durocher six months in jail,

Durocher pleaded guilty to shoplifting the items three days after being caught by the store's security,

North Vancouver provincial court Judge Reginald Grandison took into account Durocher’s criminal record during sentencing.

Durocher’s record started in 1974 and contains more than 30 convictions since then.

Durocher has been sentenced for thefts, robberies, fraud, drug possession, impaired driving, resisting arrest and failing to show up at court, according to police.

Judge Grandison placed Durocher on 24 months’ pro- bation after his jail term expires. Durocher, the judge ordered, was not to be found on the North Shore during his probation.

~—Anna Marie D’Angelo

Canine catches men

POLICE dog Chase caught one flecing man.

worked double duty on July + catching two sus- nected mischief- makers. Chase’s handler, North Vancouver RCMP Const. Shaun Brozer, was the fist Officer to arrive after the police received a complaint that’a greup of men was throwing things and kick- ing at a house’s front door

After the 21-year-old Suspect was turned over to a two-legged cop, Chase continued on his pursuit of the other suspect.

Police estimate it took the deg 10 minutes to catch the second man, aged

6. » One of the arrested men was treated in hospital for

a dog bite to the arm. The men are facing charges of mischief and causing a disturbance. Their names were not released to press time. —Anna Marie D’Angelo

in the 400-block of West Ist Street. : _Brozer saw two men running away from the block during the 3 a.m. incident. The police dog chased and promptly

Fine for failing to file

A North Vancouver man was fined $10,000 last month for failing to file five years’ worth of income tax.

Norman R. Farrell pleaded guilty to five charges of fail- ing to file personal and business income tax forms for the years 1991 to 1995.

North Vancouver provincial court Judge Ellen Burdett fined Farrell $2,000 for each charge at the end of June.

. . — Anna Marie D’Angelo

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