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Conspiracy trial to be heard in Kamloops
M I K E YO U D S Kamloops Daily News
The trial of three Cranbrook men on charges of conspiracy to commit murder will be heard in Kamloops, Supreme Court Justice Dev Dley decided Monday. Dley rejected a defense counsel application for a change of venue to Cranbrook or the Lower Mainland for a variety of reasons. The trial is tentatively scheduled to begin Feb. 4. There is a publication
ban on other details of the voir dire stage of the preliminary inquiry since the case will be decided by jury. Dley was appointed case management judge in December for the trial of Lonnie Adams, Lorne Carry and Colin Correia. All three are charged with conspiracy to commit murder and counseling an indictable offence. As well, Carry and Correia are charged with firearms offences. Adams and Correia remain in custody.
RCMP have said the charges are related to rival gangs seeking to control the drug trade in Cranbrook. Dley was appointed in order to deal with a large quantity of evidence in the trial, which is expected to take 10 weeks or more. Cranbrook — where the alleged offence occurred and initial stages of a preliminary inquiry were held before it was relocated to Kamloops earlier this year — lacks adequate holding facilities for the accused,
Dley said. The case, which developed in the aftermath of a double homicide, has received a great deal of publicity in Cranbook, another reason why it should not be held there due to the difficulty that might present for jury selection, Dley ruled. Holding the trial in Vancouver would make it more difficult for as many as 20 investigating police officers, based in Kelowna, to testify, he noted. In May 2010, a suspect
dressed in camouflage broke into a home just east of Cranbrook and shot and killed Leanne MacFarlane and Jeff Taylor. Police confirmed that the couple had just moved into a home formerly rented by Doug Mahon. They believed MacFarlane and Taylor were innocent and that the slayings were related to a 2009 shooting outside of the Sam Steele Hotel. Mahon was charged in that shooting. The victim was Chad Munroe, who was initially charged
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Kootenay Ice veterans went through an exhausting series of fitness testing exercises Tuesday, split between Western Financial Place and the College of the Rockies track. Kootenay Ice training camp officially gets underway Wednesday. See related story, Page 8. Front row, left to right: Brock Montgomery, Jordyn Boyd, Jagger Dirk and Mike Simpson.
along with Adams, Carry and Correia. Last November, lawyers in the case asked that the trial be heard outside of Cranbrook due to security concerns and the advanced publicity it had received.
Court hears evidence in Bouvette case AN N AL EE GR AN T Townsman Staff
Day one of a three-day preliminary hearing started Tuesday in the case of Tammy Bouvette, who is charged with second degree murder in the death of 18-month-old Iyanna Teeple. Court was shown a video interview in which Bouvette finally admitted after an hour of talks with RCMP Const. Felicity Parker and Cpl. Chris Faulkner, that she left the child unattended in the bathroom. In the video, Bouvette insists to Parker that she never left the bathroom, but rather turned to reach a bottle of shampoo only to find the young girl face down in the tub on her belly. She told police that Iyana must have turned on to her belly while she was looking away for just seconds and drowned. Parker continually asks Bouvette how a wet spot had appeared in her bedroom, and why there was a wet Spiderman mask next to the stain. Bouvette said her older daughter who was in the home at the time must have spilled a glass of water.
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