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Fifty years for fugitive found in Fort MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
A cold-blooded killer who hid out at a Fort Langley home in January 2008, was sentenced to 50 years to life this week for the first degree murder and dismemberment of his landlord and boss in Sacramento, Calif., back in 2007. Arthur Carnes, 40, was found guilty last month but was spared the possibility of the death penalty because of a crossborder extradition deal with Canada that made the U.S. promise to spare his life from lethal injection. Carnes was the live-in caretaker at Matthew Seybert’s home, when he murdered the man, decapitating and de-limbing him and documenting it on a digital camera before throwing his body into a waterway. Carnes stole the victim’s car and emptied his bank account. His whereabouts was tracked to Fort Langley because he used the victim’s debit card here. Langley RCMP arrested Carnes in a backyard in Fort Langley. Normally, such a conviction would carry the death penalty in California but because Carnes was arrested in Fort Langley and claimed refugee status here, Canada would only release him to the U.S. on a promise he wouldn’t be executed. After committing the murder, Carnes, a self-professed survivalist, drove the victim’s car as far as Washington State where he abandoned it and crossed into Canada on foot illegally. In that time, he befriended a Fort Langley man on a “survivalist” website that both the local man and Carnes frequented, the courts heard.The man took in Carnes without knowing he was wanted for murder in the States. The jury heard that Carnes posted a 400-page manifesto of “natural born killers” like himself, detailing ways to kill someone including the options he chose to kill Seybert.
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SETTING SAIL: Jayla Bollmann (left) and Olivia Corvec, both 6, release their environmentally-friendly biodegradable paper boats into the Fraser River in honour of cancer patients during the Float Your Boat For a Cure fundraiser. The event was held in memory of Corvec’s uncle Andrew Vaydo, who passed away July 8, 2011 after a two-year battle with lymphoma. This was the first of many events being held by Team Andrew Forever to raise $30,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of Canada.
Un-named woman given four years in Marc Bontkes’ murder Publication ban placed on sentencing details as jury trial appoaches MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
A 21-year-old woman will spend almost four years in a federal prison for her part in the killing of Langley’s Marc Bontkes. Bontkes’ parents, siblings and other loved ones filled nearly two rows of a B.C. Supreme courtroom in New Westminster to hear the judge’s sentence on Monday morning. The accused also had some family present. The room was very quiet as the
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She also has to submit a DNA judge read out his sentence. sample and was given a 10-year Though she was originally tried firearms ban. as a youth, the judge decided to While listening to the judge’s impose an adult sentence for the lengthy reasons for sentencing, the woman, who was just shy of her accused, who wore dark-rimmed 18th birthday at the time of the glasses, sometimes chewed on her killing. nails but mostly looked towards Despite being sentenced as an the judge, expressionless. adult, a publication ban on the On top of not being able to woman’s identity remains in place release her name, there is also a for 30 days, to allow her time to publication ban on the judge’s reaconsider appealing her sentence. Marc sons for sentencing. This is because She has spent 20 months Bontkes there is still a jury trial to come in behind bars since her arrest in Bontkes’ murder. July 2010. On Monday, the judge Three people were arrested and charged sentenced her to 72 months but credited in his murder. her 30 months for time served (1.5 months for every month she has spent in jail) so continued, PAGE 4 she will spent 42 months behind bars.
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