Tuesday January 20, 2015 (Vol. 40 No. 6)
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Running wild: The Tamanawis Wildcats are back-toback champions of the Surrey RCMP Classic, after the senior boys hoops squad narrowly edged the Southridge Storm in the title game last Saturday. i see page 19
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Sound of gunfire heard early Saturday morning
Car riddled with bullets in White Rock Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
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Officers investigate after vehicle was found.
Early-morning gunfire prompted police to cordon off part of a hillside White Rock neighbourhood Saturday. Const. Shaileshni Molison on Monday said that no one was injured in the “shooting incident,” and the investigation is ongoing. Police were alerted to it by a report of a suspicious vehicle parked in the 15300-block
of Columbia Avenue. Officers who attended found a car “with several bullet holes,” Molison said. Area residents say they were woken between 2 and 4 a.m. Jan. 17 by what sounded like gunshots or firecrackers going off near Columbia Avenue and Centre Street. Later, police tape blocked Columbia Avenue east of Johnston Road, and officers with rifles could be seen patrolling near a vehicle
that appeared riddled with bullet holes. “Police had the street cordoned off totally,” neighbour Janice Smith, who did not hear the gunfire, told Peace Arch News. “A car had its windows shot out. It’s got eight bullet holes in it. You can see they’ve numbered them.” She said police at the scene offered no explanation, and that the targeted car could still be seen Sunday.
Two years served
Release frustrates victim’s parents Sheila Reynolds Black Press
The family of a Surrey woman killed by a drunk driver nearly four years ago is struggling with the fact the driver was freed from jail Thursday after serving two years of her three-year sentence. Natasha Warren, driving while intoxicated, slammed into Kassandra Kaulius’ car in May 2011 and fled into some Kassandra Kaulius nearby bushes Victim before being arrested. Kaulius, 22, was killed instantly. Warren pleaded guilty to impaired driving causing death and failure to stop at an accident and was sentenced in December 2012 to three years prison, followed by a five-year driving ban. She has now received her statutory release – automatically granted to all offenders not serving life sentences after they’ve served two-thirds of their time. i see page 4
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An officer with the Mounties’ Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement and Response Team carries a suspect two-litre bottle found in a parking garage.
Seven arrested after discovery in apartment building’s underground parking
‘Mini meth lab’ found under complex Tracy Holmes Staff Reporter
Surrey RCMP’s drug unit, firefighters and the Mounties’ Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement and Response Team (CLEAR) descended on a South Surrey condominium complex, following a police incident early Friday in the 1800-block of Southmere Crescent. Health Canada representatives also attended, as investigators indicated a suspected “mini meth lab” was discovered in the underground parking area.
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Crews cordoned off the area and restricted residents’ movements while the lab – in a twolitre pop bottle, described as “a one-pot system… highly volatile” – was carefully extracted. The threat was deemed all but eliminated after the bottle lid was removed that afternoon and the contents did not react. “It’s really an unimpressive meth lab to look at right now,” an officer with CLEAR told Peace Arch News after the operation was complete shortly after 3:30 p.m. “They are really explosive.”
In addition, they’re not often seen in Canada, he said. Samples from the bottle are to be analyzed to confirm the contents – results of which are not expected for “a couple months” – and a hazardous-waste company picked up the bottle and other items found at the scene. Police confirm seven people were arrested – two women and five men – in connection with the discovery, which was the subject of an ongoing investigation. i see page 4 Kintec White Rock
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