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Residents are ‘done waiting’ for safer 29 Ave.
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Toots Tucker, one of Langley’s two Seniors of the Year, is warmly congratulated on her title by her driver, Rene Doyharcabal, outside the Langley Seniors Resource Centre on Wednesday. Tucker and fellow Senior of the Year David Esworthy, were honoured at a luncheon at the centre. Doyharcabal volunteers his time and his classic car to drive the VIPs and has done so for a number of years.
Aldergrove residents are growing impatient over the speed with which the Township is responding to safety concerns. “We will not sit quietly anymore while nothing gets done,” Margo McPhelan told council on Monday evening. “We’ve been polite. We’ve been patient. We’re done waiting.” Of particular concern is 29 Avenue between 264 and 272 Streets where 10-year-old Nico Pike was struck as he crossed the street with a friend. There is no crosswalk between those two streets. The Shortreed Elementary school student was injured in the February accident, and is reportedly back at school for a limited number of hours each day. Aldergrove residents have come before council several times in the past to discuss ways to make their streets safer, but McPhelan noted in her earlier presentation, the dynamics changed. New parks have been built and old ones expanded, school catchment areas have changed, and traffic calming measures have been a “very positive step” in keeping the community safe. continued, PAGE 5
Eight years for ‘relentless’ robbery spree A prolific thief who committed at least one Langley break-in says he was supporting a $600-a-day heroin habit ALEX BROWNE Black Press
A series of thoroughly-planned home break-ins — most of them in South Surrey, but at least one in Langley — have netted a 38-year-old Abbotsford man more than seven years in jail. Darwin Duane Dorozan was sentenced Tuesday in Surrey Provincial Court to multiple concurrent and consecutive terms totalling eight years, which was reduced by 10 months to reflect the time he has already spent behind bars. Dorozan pleaded guilty in May to 12 counts of break-and-enter in connection
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with incidents between April and August of 2011 and one in August, 2010, just prior to a nine-month sentence he served as the result of a 2007 robbery. Dorozan had said he committed the robberies to feed a $600-a-day heroin habit. In one incident, he had admitted to bear spraying a resident who struggled with him during a robbery attempt, while in another he had continued to ransack bedrooms while a terrified 19-year-old woman, who had locked herself in a bathroom, telephoned police. The Langley incident involved breaking into a home in the 21900 block of 44 Avenue.
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In a pre-sentencing summary of the crimes, Judge Michael Hicks recounted how Dorozan was snared because he left behind knapsacks containing robbery tools and identifying materials, including a methadone prescription in his name, as well as lists of names, addresses and telephone numbers corresponding to robbery victims. RCMP checks of cellphone records had shown Dorozan, who Darwin specialized in stealing jewelry, Dorozan money and electronics, had called his victims’ residences on the dates of the robberies to find out whether they
were home. On Aug. 15, 2011, a police surveillance team watched Dorozan and his younger brother, Dane, remove electronics from a home in the 16400-block of 28 Avenue. Both were arrested. Dorozan’s brother is due to be sentenced on Sept. 21. The jail term is in line with the eight years prosecutor Mike Fortino had sought, rather than the five years defence lawyer Gordon Bowen had asked for.
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