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[Mike K.]

Just a reminder please that we cannot accommodate full or nearly full replications of articles. A couple of paragraphs is the maximum. 

[pontcanna]

West Shore RCMP arrest indecent offender twice in the same week

West Shore, Burnaby

2024-03-28

File # 2024-5776

On March 24 at approximately 10:18 a.m., the West Shore RCMP responded to a report of a male committing an indecent act in front of a restaurant on the 1800 block of Island Hwy in Colwood. The suspect had exposed himself in a sexual manner which was seen by several witnesses including children. The officers quickly located and arrested the suspect, who was identified as 36-year-old Nanaimo man.

 

From CSO: Douglas Lance LAPLANTE, born 1987. Based on prior court entries, could be from out of province

 

The suspect was held in custody and brought before the courts the following day, where he was subsequently released by way of a release order with several conditions including to remain fully clothed while in public places, and not to expose his genitals in a public place.

On March 27 at approximately 3:57 p.m., the West Shore RCMP received another report of the same male under the Six Mile Rd bridge in View Royal, again committing an indecent act while in plain view of a number of youths.

Within 2 hours of this report, police located and arrested the male suspect. The male suspect was also now wanted in a warrant in relation to yet another Indecent Act that is alleged to have taken place in Burnaby on November 23, 2023, and for which he had failed to attend court.

The suspect was held in custody and again brought before a Judge today. He has been remanded and is set to appear in court on April 2.

The suspect now faces a number of charges from 3 separate investigations including:

 3 counts of Indecent act;
 1 count indecent exposure to a minor;
 1 count of failure to comply with release order.

Sexual crimes against youths not only affect the victims, but can have lasting effects on the entire community. We are pleased to see this individual off the streets and want to thank the witnesses for their bravery in calling the police right away. Their information was critical in locating and arresting the suspect, said Cst. Andrew Matheson, West Shore RCMP Media Relations Officer.

Released by

Cst. Andrew Matheson
Media Relations Officer
West Shore RCMP

 

 

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I can’t imagine how I’d feel in this situation. I would want the guy to get treatment . I also believe getting high and committing random crimes should not give you a free pass . Too many criminals suddenly clean up their act and appear remorseful when faced with charges for only as long as needed to convince a judge. How if they are serious addicts can they suddenly quit when we’ve been told this is next to impossible.
Anyone under the influence should still hold some percentage of responsibility for their actions. Slippery slope. We need a better solution.

Call me crazy… but addicts should bear the full 100% of the responsibility for their actions, whether they’re high or not.

They chose to get high. If being high results in inability to not rape people, maybe don’t get high?

This gentle sentencing method is about as effective as gentle parenting. And further down the gutter society goes…

[pontcanna]

Arrest unfolds behind live news broadcast at Mayfair Shopping Centre

Friday, March 29th, 2024

In an unexpected turn of events during CHEK News’s 6 p.m. broadcast on Thursday night, viewers witnessed a dramatic arrest unfolding in the background of the live segment at Mayfair Mall.

While reporter Jeff King engaged in a conversation about Nespresso products inside the Nespresso Boutique, the attention of viewers was drawn to a scene of officers apprehending an individual in the background.



The person being arrested was visibly resistant, screaming for help as officers attempted to detain them.

Amidst the chaos, King, drawing upon his experience, adeptly shifted the focus of the conversation and camera away from the altercation, ensuring the smooth continuation of the broadcast.

Video Link: https://www.reddit.c...news_broadcast/

 

More: https://www.victoria...g-centre-video/

 

 

[Matt R.]

Turn the camera away from the news to sell more garbage. Love their new logo!

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'A disaster': Judge scolds B.C. fentanyl delivery driver sentenced to two years in prison

 

“The devastating effects of fentanyl distribution and use are by now notorious. We all know what is going on, Mr. Carlson, and you do, too. ... The numbers are staggering,” the judge said.

 

A Victoria man who was caught by police delivering ­fentanyl has been sentenced to a federal prison for two years plus ­­one day by B.C. Supreme Court ­Justice Robin Baird, who ­chastised the man for his role in B.C.’s overdose “disaster.”

Dana Stanly Gordon Carlson, 50, was found guilty of a single count of possession of fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking on Nov. 16, 2023.

Carlson had told the court of a tough childhood, obtaining only a Grade 8 education, and how his drywalling business dried up during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading him to make, as Baird described, “a disastrous choice while he was in this straitened financial situation.”

Carlson, who ended up living most recently in a social housing complex, told the court that he was paid $500 to deliver the fentanyl on behalf of a “contact” from Nanaimo.

Last year, the court heard how Victoria police officers executed a warrant to search a hotel room occupied by someone named Tighson Laughren at the Chateau Victoria Hotel at 740 Burdett Ave.

They seized Laughren’s unlocked phone, which they then used to contact Carlson who went by the codename “Bradpitt” on the encrypted messaging app Signal.
 

More: https://www.timescol...-prison-8527081

 

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Officers Respond To Fatal Stabbing

Date: Sunday, March 31, 2024

File: #24-11002

Victoria, B.C. – At approximately 4:00 a.m. today, VicPD officers responded to a report of a stabbing in the 700-Block of Pandora Avenue. Officers arrived at the scene to find one deceased male and another victim, who was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

One person has been taken into custody and there is no further risk to the public.  

This file is under investigation by the Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit and further details cannot be shared at this time.

The 700-Block of Pandora Ave remains closed to traffic due to the ongoing investigation. Traffic updates will be posted on VicPD’s X account.  

 

https://www.cheknews...police-1197421/ :

 

A CHEK News cameraperson captured video of officers on scene and the street blocked off with police tape. Crime scene markers and a puddle of blood could be seen on the road, across from the Ocean Island Inn and WIN Resale Shop.

 

 

 

Edited by pontcanna, 31 March 2024 - 12:37 PM.

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Two residents who live in Cool Aid Society’s housing on Pandora tell CHEK News some people in the building heard part of the altercation.


 

“There was a lot of squabbling and screaming,” said Lawrence Reed.

John Preston says his friend saw two men arguing behind the bus stop across the street from his apartment window.

 

 

“He went to his kitchen and came back and looked out again, and saw one guy lying down in the back of the bus stop,” explained Preston.

A CHEK News cameraperson captured video of officers on scene and the street blocked off with police tape. Crime scene markers and a puddle of blood could be seen on the pavement, across from the Ocean Island Inn and WIN Resale Shop.

Incident disrupts hostel stay

Some people staying at the Ocean Island Inn had to find different accommodations.  

Jessica Haberl was supposed to stay at the hostel Sunday night after attending a local concert. When she returned at 4:30 a.m., police told her that no one was allowed in or out of the building.

 

 

Haberl says one of her friends let her stay at their house until she was allowed in the hostel to gather her belongings.

She says the crime scene extended inside the Ocean Island Inn.

“One room on the fourth floor was all cordoned off, and there were a few officers there. That was the most that we could see,” said Haberl.

 

More: https://www.cheknews...police-1197421/

 

[pontcanna]

Pandora killing this morning: VicPD #24-11002.

 

Born 1960 - charges soon to be upgraded I imagine. Bit old for this kind of nonsense, no BC CSO priors:

 

 

 

[pontcanna]

Things that make you go hmmm...age is right for a 1984 newspaper story...

 

[Victoria Watcher]

— Police have confirmed two people were killed during a Wednesday shooting at Adventure Trucks near Kelowna’s Reid’s Corner area.

In a brief statement, Sgt. Laura Pollock of Kelowna RCMP said the incident was a homicide. “On March 27, 2024 at approximately 2:30 pm the Kelowna RCMP were called to the 100 block of Adams Road after receiving a report of shots fired in which a subsequent fire ensued,” Sgt. Pollock said. “Upon police entry into the business two deceased were located.”

Jacqueline Kofoed, the sister of one of the dead, Jeremy Kofoed, said in a Facebook post Friday night that her brother was shot and killed by “a known acquaintance.” She said the shooter set fire to the building and then killed himself.

https://www.timescol...on-fire-8533406

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 31 March 2024 - 11:48 PM.

[pontcanna]

Man sentenced to 18-months for voyeurism at Sooke pool

Posted: Apr. 1, 2024 

 

Police photo from missing person report circa 2018

A man has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and three years probation for a voyeurism incident in Sooke.

In a Provincial Court of B.C. ruling, Judge Ted Gouge sentenced Mark Istephan for the voyeurism offence that occurred on May 4, 2022 in Sooke.

In the decision, Gouge writes that the complainant, who is only identified by the initials Z. R., was using the community centre in Sooke for her morning workout.

As she was getting changed in a cubicle in the gender-neutral changeroom after swimming, she saw the shadow of a person in the neighbouring cubicle who appeared to be trying to look into her stall through the space at the bottom between the wall and floor.

“She fled in fear to the reception desk at the front of the community centre. Police were called and arrested Mr. Istephan,” Gouge writes.

In 2001, he was charged with attempted kidnapping for trying to pull a 13-year-old girl who was waiting at a bus stop into his vehicle. He received an 18-month sentence for this. In 2007, he was convicted of committing an indecent act in a public place for masturbating on a wharf at a lake near Victoria. He received a 60 day jail sentence and three years probation for this. In 2009, he was convicted of a breach of his probation conditions for failing to complete a sex offender counselling program. Then in 2014 he was convicted of a breach of his probation conditions for being within 200 metres of a school ground.

Istephan has suffered some physical damage to his frontal lobe, but the extent of the damage is not disclosed. “[Mr. Istephan] advises that he does not have concern for his mental health. He reports that he disagrees with ‘… past diagnoses and do not wish to share the diagnoses I was provided as they are fictitious …’,” the presentence reports says.

The maximum sentence for this conviction is two years less one day, Gouge says.

“I would have been inclined to that sentence, were it not for the fact that Mr. Conway seeks an 18-month sentence,” Gouge writes. “As a general rule, I think it unwise to impose a longer sentence than that sought by the Crown. I sentence Mr. Istephan to 18 months’ imprisonment.”
 

More: https://www.cheknews...e-pool-1197539/

[Nparker]

...As she was getting changed in a cubicle in the gender-neutral changeroom after swimming, she saw the shadow of a person in the neighbouring cubicle who appeared to be trying to look into her stall through the space at the bottom between the wall and floor...

Perhaps this is why changerooms have generally been segregated by (biological) gender.

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Man sentenced to 18-months for voyeurism at Sooke pool

Posted: Apr. 1, 2024

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Police photo from missing person report circa 2018

A man has been sentenced to 18 months imprisonment and three years probation for a voyeurism incident in Sooke.

In a Provincial Court of B.C. ruling, Judge Ted Gouge sentenced Mark Istephan for the voyeurism offence that occurred on May 4, 2022 in Sooke.

In the decision, Gouge writes that the complainant, who is only identified by the initials Z. R., was using the community centre in Sooke for her morning workout.

As she was getting changed in a cubicle in the gender-neutral changeroom after swimming, she saw the shadow of a person in the neighbouring cubicle who appeared to be trying to look into her stall through the space at the bottom between the wall and floor.

“She fled in fear to the reception desk at the front of the community centre. Police were called and arrested Mr. Istephan,” Gouge writes.

In 2001, he was charged with attempted kidnapping for trying to pull a 13-year-old girl who was waiting at a bus stop into his vehicle. He received an 18-month sentence for this. In 2007, he was convicted of committing an indecent act in a public place for masturbating on a wharf at a lake near Victoria. He received a 60 day jail sentence and three years probation for this. In 2009, he was convicted of a breach of his probation conditions for failing to complete a sex offender counselling program. Then in 2014 he was convicted of a breach of his probation conditions for being within 200 metres of a school ground.

Istephan has suffered some physical damage to his frontal lobe, but the extent of the damage is not disclosed. “[Mr. Istephan] advises that he does not have concern for his mental health. He reports that he disagrees with ‘… past diagnoses and do not wish to share the diagnoses I was provided as they are fictitious …’,” the presentence reports says.

The maximum sentence for this conviction is two years less one day, Gouge says.

“I would have been inclined to that sentence, were it not for the fact that Mr. Conway seeks an 18-month sentence,” Gouge writes. “As a general rule, I think it unwise to impose a longer sentence than that sought by the Crown. I sentence Mr. Istephan to 18 months’ imprisonment.”

More: https://www.cheknews...e-pool-1197539/

This is the kind of evil that won’t stop on its own. This guy is a threat that needs to be neutralized.

[pontcanna]

Pandora killing this morning: VicPD #24-11002.

 

Born 1960 - charges soon to be upgraded I imagine. Bit old for this kind of nonsense, no BC CSO priors:

 

"A resident who has been staying at the hostel for several months and did not want to be named said he believes the man killed and the man arrested were both staying at the hostel. He described the man arrested as a heavy drinker who was socially awkward and was always by himself. He had been staying at the hostel for a few months"

 

More: https://www.timescol...tabbing-8533135

[Mike P.]

His next court appearance is today at 5pm.

[Mike K.]

From VicPD:

 

One person has been charged with Aggravated Assault following a stabbing over weekend. 

 

On Sunday, March 31, at approximately 4:00 a.m. VicPD officers responded to a report of a stabbing in the 700-Block of Pandora Avenue. Officers arrived at the scene within minutes to find one deceased male, and a second victim, who was transported to hospital with life-altering injuries. 

 

Robert Travers was taken into custody at the scene and has now been charged with one count of Aggravated Assault against the second victim.   

 

The Vancouver Island Integrated Major Crime Unit continues to investigate the suspected homicide, which shut down the 700-Block of Pandora Avenue for most of the day on March 31.  

 

As this file is now before the courts and remains under investigation, further details cannot be shared at this time. 

[Mike K.]

Could the backpacker inn knifeman be the same person who fired at a police officer in Halifax, in 1983? There's some online chatter that it's the same person.

[pontcanna]

‘I got pretty heavily into it:’ Nanaimo drug trafficker jailed, hopes to beat addiction

 

Apr 2, 2024 

NANAIMO — Drugs, heroin and fentanyl in particular, derailed a Nanaimo man who’s hoping to get his life back on track.

 

Gordon Clifford Brooks, 58, was handed a 20-month jail sentence on Wednesday, March 27 after he pleaded guilty to four drug charges in connection to a pair of busts in Nanaimo in 2021.

Significant volumes of GHB, commonly known as the date rape drug, along with supplies to make GHB, cocaine and fentanyl were seized following searches of a vehicle and a Nanaimo motel room.

Acting on intelligence gathered by Nanaimo RCMP weeks prior, police found 41 litres of GHB in Brooks’ car during a March 3, 2021 traffic stop.

Investigators estimated the GHB was worth as much as $10,000, according to Crown prosecutor Ian McFadgen.

A subsequent search of a Bluebird Motel room under Brooks’ name netted 36 grams of cocaine in a desk drawer, with the drugs carrying an estimated $3,600 street value.

More than five grams of fentanyl was also located in the motel room, as well as drug paraphernalia and around $1,000 in cash.

Less than two months later Brooks found himself in handcuffs again.

The Nanaimo RCMP officer who responded to (a) complaint observed numerous items in the vehicle necessary for producing GHB.

McFadgen pointed to an eloquently written letter by Brooks to the court demonstrating his desire to get formal treatment.

Defence attorney Rory Morahan said Brooks, abused during his childhood, became heavily involved with drugs at around the age of 44 following a divorce.

Brooks rose from the prisoner’s box to tell the judge he was serious about changing his life.

Justice Michael Brundrett recommended Brooks serve his time at Nanaimo Correctional Centre, home of the renowned Guthrie Therapeutic Community.

More: https://nanaimonewsn...beat-addiction/

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Pedestrian dies after hit by truck in central Nanaimo, driver in custody

Apr 2, 2024 

NANAIMO — A woman hit by a truck in Nanaimo near the hospital on Tuesday has died as a result of her injuries.

 

 

Emergency crews were called to Boundary Ave. near Meredith Rd. in front of the Nanaimo Alliance Church on Tuesday, April 2 shortly before 12:30 p.m. in response to a pedestrian hit by a Chevrolet Silverado pickup.

In a news release, Nanaimo RCMP stated the female pedestrian was pronounced dead on scene, while the man driving the truck was taken into police custody and is under investigation for impaired driving.
 

More: https://nanaimonewsn...naimo-hospital/