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Dad dies 6 months after crash RAFE ARNOTT RArnott@abbotsfordtimes.com
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he father of a pregnant Abbotsford woman killed by a car crash March 13 has also died from injuries sustained in the incident. Albert Ralph Jewell, 66, died in hospital Sept. 15 with family at his side, according to police. Jewell had remained in hospital since the crash, suffering from complications arising from serious internal injuries sustained in the incident that claimed his daughter, Laurel Wilson, 27, and her unborn child. She was seven months pregnant. “This case has had The incident involved a a real impact on Honda Prelude plowing into Wilson, her husband and Jewour community, a ell after it collided with a Ford young mother-toF-150 pickup in the intersection of South Fraser Way and be, and now her Ware Street in Abbotsford. father have left the The three were out for a walk to celebrate Wilson’s 27th family devastated.” birthday and were waiting on a pedestrian median to cross – Sgt. Casey Vinet APD Ware Street when the collision took place. Debris from the crash, including a wheel the Honda lost in the impact, slammed into four other vehicles in close proximity. The resulting six-car pileup shut down the intersection for hours as emergency crews worked to save Wilson and her father, who was pinned against a light standard. see CRASH, page A3
– RAFE ARNOTT/TIMES
An impromptu memorial sprang up on the pedestrian intersection at South Fraser Way and Ware Street following the March 13 accident.
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Busted with huge 36-kg drug stash 200,000 ecstasy pills tucked in high-tech secret compartment
enforcement officers that there are large amounts of synthetic drugs available in British Columbia. “In total, 63.5 kgs of ecstasy tablets were seized. That’s more RAFE ARNOTT than 200,000 individual doses,” RArnott@abbotsfordtimes.com McLaughlin said. The man arrested was the CMP arrested a 47-year- sole occupant of the truck and old Abbotsford man was taken into custody without with 36 kilograms (79 incident, according to police. pounds) of ecstasy hidden in “The suspect does not have the gas tank of the pickup truck a significant criminal history, he was driving near Chilliwack but the amount and value of the drugs, the sophistication Tuesday morning. Drug enforcement branch of the compartment that was officers made the discovery hiding them, and the fact that they were likely after pulling the being hidden vehicle over on First reported @ Hwy. 1 near the abbotsfordtimes.com for a relatively long journey, Evans Road exit. Another 27.5 kg of ecstasy suggests that this file is linked was found in a suitcase at the to organized crime,” McLaughsuspect’s Abbotsford home lin said. McLaughlin said drugs like after police received a warrant ecstasy can vary wildly in their and searched the property. The drugs were concealed concentration of the active in a sophisticated, magnetic, ingredient MDMA, and a signifelectronically-controlled com- icant amount of ecstasy seized partment inside the vehicle’s by police is laced with drugs gas tank, RCMP Const. Michael like crystal meth and ketamine – a horse tranquilizer. McLaughlin said in a release. The seizure underscores see BUST, page A14 the growing concern of law
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Bingo bestows $500,000 JEAN KONDA-WITTE JKonda-Witte@abbotsfordtimes.com
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ore than 70 local charities, minor sports teams and area schools are the recipients of $500,000, thanks to the Abbotsford Bingo Association. “It’s great, it’s very unique,” Playtime Gaming Centres coordinator of business development Art Villa said Wednesday as he presented a cheque to
Dorothy Van der Ree, executive director of the MSA Museum Society. “It was really lovely . . . it enables us to continue on with the programming that we do here,” Van der Ree said of the $9,000-plus cheque. She suggested the money will go into general operating expenses, and isn’t earmarked for anything special at this time. see BINGO!, page A21
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