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Coquitlam bust yields six arrests Jennifer McFee jmcfee@thenownews.com Police arrested six Coquitlam residents Thursday in connection to an alleged counterfeit currency ring based out of a Dawes Hill home. Mathew Flynn, Michel Mieszkowski, Michael McIntyre and Bradley Voykin face charges of making, possessing and uttering counterfeit banknotes as well as for possessing instruments to make counterfeit money. All four men are in their early 20s. Two women in their early 20s were also arrested and released on promises to appear in court at a later date. Police have not released their names since charges have not yet been laid. RCMP officers say they found fake Canadian bills and blank credit cards while searching buildings in the 1900 block of Dawes Hill in Coquitlam and the 4200 block of Dunbar Street in Vancouver. Investigators also found computers and other equipment allegedly used to make counterfeit banknotes and credit cards. Most of the alleged fake money was in denominations of $100, $50 and $20. Three different serial numbers were used for all the $100 bills: EJE9791896, EJE7771896 and EJE7171891. Another three serial numbers were used for the $20 bills: ARA9965493, ARD4089894 and ERC3300372. In total, police estimate the alleged counterfeiters are responsible for producing and passing $300,000 in fake Canadian banknotes throughout B.C., Alberta and Manitoba in the past 10 months. This amounts to about 80 per cent of all counterfeit currency passed in CONT. ON PAGE 4, see ‘PEOPLE.’
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Visit www.thenownews.com for a gallery of the Downtown PoCo Car Show.
COBRA QUEEN: Angie Hall stands between her 1976 Cobra II (left) and 1978 King Cobra at the sixth-annual Downtown Port Coquitlam Car Show. Categories included best modified car or truck (including all mini trucks), best stock car, best ’60 to ’74 stock (GM, Ford and Mopar), best stock import, best modified import and best stock truck. Specialty awards included best of show, MLA’s choice of show, city’s choice of show, longest distance travelled and participants’ choice. The show, which took place Sunday on the streets near City Hall, is hosted by the PoCo BIA. To see photos of the highlights, including a rare DeLorean DMC-12, visit www.thenownews.com.
Liberal MLAs dismiss recall threats
Iain Black and Doug Horne say they’ve received little negative reaction over HST John Kurucz jkurucz@thenownews.com Though they characterize the communications strategy around it as “deplorable” and “pathetic,” both local Liberal MLAs stand by the HST’s implementation — despite court challenges and recall threats. Port Moody-Coquitlam MLA Iain Black and Coquitlam-Burke Mountain MLA Doug Horne conceded in separate interviews Tuesday that the BC Liberals failed in effectively communicating the
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nuances of the tax to the electorate, though neither MLA seems to be losing sleep over voter recalls that could begin within three months. “I took a major pay cut to be elected, and I see this as service to my community,” Horne said. “I will continue to serve the best I can, and if my community says that they would prefer that I don’t, then I don’t. I’ll go back to the private sector.” As for Black, he said there is virtually no other political alternative in B.C. when it comes to the areas of job creation and the economy. “At the end of the day, the alternative to the B.C. Liberal Party is a party that has no economic plat-
form and the people passed judgment on that last year,” he said. “Their track record in governing the province is very, very clear. Every time they have had an opportunity to do so, it has been economic disaster.” Black and Horne were commenting on the Fight HST camp’s vow to begin recalling every Liberal MLA in B.C. as of Nov. 15. Though the idea of a mass recall was floated about two months ago, it gained significantly more traction last week, when the province’s chief electoral CONTINUED ON PAGE 4, see LIBERAL MLA.
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