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RCMP ARE continuing their investigation into the murders of two strippers whose bodies were found on Mount Seymour but have so far made no arrests, Staff Sgt. Tom

Hill said Tuesday.

And police are remaining tight- lipped about a recent tape re- cording of a man who called the booking agency that handled one of the murdered women.

“That's not something that’s in the public’s interest to release,”’ said Hill.

The body of Darlinda Lee Rit- chey, 27, was found Dec. 14 by a man jovking for a Christmas tree near the base of Mount Seymour. A police search of the area the next day uncovered the body of Karen Ann Baker, 20, a few metres from Ritchey.

Cause and time of death have

Police have refused to comment

Weather:

Friday and Saturday, periods of rain. Highs near 7°C.

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after heavy rainfalls raised the water level of creeks south of Lions Bay. Traffic was stopped for an hour.

nat yet been determined but police believe Baker had been there longer than Ritchey.

“Time is a pretty difficult thing,”' said Hill. ‘We're assum- ing that the time of Karen Ann Baker's death was earlier.”

Recent disturbing telephone cails and threats to a Vancouver agency that books exotic dancers are being handled by the Vancouver Police, Hill said, but noted information is exchanged between the two police forces on a regular basis.

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on speculation the two disappeared on the same day or knew each other. “We haven't released any information,"’ said Hill.

“We're not about to release anything one way or the other,” Hill said.

A North Vancouver woman's body found Dec. 19 in’ Van- couver’s Mount Pleasant area is not believed to be linked to the re- cent murders of Ritchey or Baker.

“We certainly haven't written it off as not being related,’’ Hill said of the death 26-year-old Leah Anne Reynolds.

Vancouver Police Cpl. Steven Pranzl said Tuesday there is no new information on the recent threats to the Vancouver booking agency handling exotic dancers.

“Ip would be very difficul: to identify the callers,’’ said Pranzl.

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A HIGHWAYS Department official advises a motorist on the Squamish Highway to avoid travelling on the route Monday morning

hareholders bounce taxi firrn’s directors

NORTH SHORE Taxi shareholders elected a new board of directors Sunday after dissatisfaction with the former board’s performance was registered by board member and past company president Rich Henderson.

In an interview Tuesday, Henderson said the board was not doing its jod properly.

The new board was elected in mid-term by the company’s 52 voting shareholders Dec. 28 after the former directors voted for a board review, said Henderson.

Three of the five previous board members were returned to their positions.

“The board was, in my opizion, not doing its job properly because of some differences in the way the job wes being carried out,”’ said Henderson. “There was a member

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we felt was not doing the business as it should have been done.”

Henderson said the board review was not over company finances. “As a matter of fact our profits are up and the company is operating on a positive track.”

Elections to the five-member board were effective immediately and the board will decide on a new president at its upcoming meeting scheduled for Jan. 7.

Wanting to keep the company on its “positive track’? was the reason Henderson called for a board review. ‘‘The way things were going it was impossible (to keep the company on its present positive track),’’ said Henderson.

The company’s taxi rates are not expected to change under the new directors.

“T don’t see that (a rate in- crease) happening,”’ he said. ‘‘! can’t imagine anything that drastic — but then again I’m only one member of the board.’’

Board members usually serve a one-year term with the next elec- tions in March.

Acting general manager Masoud Fanai said the company employs 275 people.

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Thieves hit empty homes

NORTH YANCOUVER RCMP are asking the public to report any suspicious activities in their neighborhoods following 9 series of break-in attempts on empty North Vancouver houses.

Last Monday a woman living in the 800‘biock of East 13th Street heard a knock at the’ door of her basement suite but did not answer,

Immediately thereafter a culprit or culprits attempted to force her door open.

sone called the RCMP but the suspects had fled when police ar- rived.

Police sources said similar break-ins attempted with crowbars, screwdrivers and wood chisels have been aitempted recently.

On Dec. 22 a door on a house on the 700 block of East 13th Street was forced open and $5,000 worth of property was stolen.

Police sources said people offen sce suspects knocking on doors and even attempting to force doors open but seldom contact police.

Gas attendant accused of theft

THE ATTENDANT of 9 North Vancouver Super-Save gas station was charged with possession of narcotics, theft under $1,000 and public mischief after he reported a robbery last Monday.

North Vancouver RCMP sources said they charged Dwayne Robert Boucher, 19, after suspecting his robbery report was bogus.

Boucher, an attendant at the Super-Save gas station at 350 East Low Level Road, reported an armed robbery at approximately 8 p.m. Dec. 29.

He said a male entered the station carrying a handgun, asked for his wallet and then told him to leave.

Boucher claimed he walkd to a telephone booth and called police. After investigation Boucher and an accomplice were subse- quently arrested.

Warrant issued for missing man

‘A WARRANT has been issued for a 20-year-old man after he faii- ed to appear in court to answer three charges of assault causing. bodily harm. :

Randall Joseph Scott, whereabouts unknown, was charged in connection with Jan, 25 and Sept. 14 Incidents in which he alleged- ly assaulted three people.

When Scott failed to appear for his court date, North Vancouver provincial court Judge J.D. Layton ordered the bench warraat | issued. .

Assault, mischief

charges stayed

CHARGES of assault and mischief laid against a 35-year-old ‘Co- | quittam man were stayed after he appeared in provincial ‘court Tuesday. ,

Gary Brian Holtby, who appeared before North Vanconver pro- vincial court Judge J.B. Paradis, was. charged with. ass caulting a” female and causing damage to a door, Belonging to her: following a a Jaly 31 Incident in North Vancouver. -- mi, 2