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Friday, January 25, 2013
Urban poaching maims deer Animal found with crossbow bolt lodged in head Kyle Slavin News staff
The discovery of two deer suffering from arrow-related injuries has police concerned an urban poacher is back at work in Saanich. The first animal was found dead in a yard in the 2400-block of Alpine Cres. near Ten Mile Point last Friday (Jan. 18). When Saanich pound officers attended, they found the deer had entry and exit arrow wounds in its lower abdomen. “That wouldn’t have been an immediate kill. It probably ran off and suffered a slow and painful death,� said Peter Pauwels, a conservation officer with the province’s Conservation Officer Service. Conservation officers located the second deer in Ten Mile Point on Tuesday morning, alive and walking around with a crossbow bolt sticking out of its head. Saanich police Sgt. Steve Eassie says area residents called police multiple times in the last couple of weeks, reporting a deer walking around with an arrow in its head. Police and the conservation officers were unable to locate that animal until Tuesday morning. The deer was ultimately contained and killed by conservation officers. “Any time there’s an incident of urban poaching, it’s obviously very much a concern,� Eassie said. “It does pose a real, large threat to the public.� PLEASE SEE: Deer poaching on the rise, Page A13
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Saanich police Sgt. Steve Eassie holds an approved screening device, used to test breath alcohol concentration on drivers suspected of being drunk. Drivers who blow over the legal limit can avoid a criminal charge with an immediate roadside prohibition, but face steep financial penalties for driver education, the ignition interlock and reactivating their licence.
Drinking and driving hits the wallet Kyle Slavin Reporting
Last call – and your last beer of the night – has come and gone. Was that your third or fourth drink? You walk to your car and try to gauge your vertigo with each step. You’re off-kilter, but not too much. “I’m alright to drive,� you tell yourself. As you crest the hill on Douglas Street you’re met with the flashing
red and blue lights of a police checkpoint. This is when you start to panic, only now regretting your decision to drink and drive. “Good evening. Have you consumed any alcohol in the previous six hours?� the officer says. It doesn’t matter what you say. The officer smells the alcohol on your breath the moment you answer.
You’re instructed to pull over and get out of your car. Your heart races as you watch the officer affix a fresh mouthpiece to the handheld Alco-Sensor device; you know full well you shouldn’t have tried driving home. PLEASE SEE: The $4,040 night out, Page A3
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