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Police on lookout for fake cops MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
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Aaron Pritchett reaches out to screaming fans below at the Rockin’ River Music Festival in Mission. The country star, who recently moved to Aldergrove, was the headliner on Thursday for the three-day event. See more on page 22.
Residents frightened by close calls
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when he realized that he could not land there safely. He set down in Douglas Park, which is surrounded on three sides by apartment buildings. On Aug. 6, the pilot landed in a field just east of Newlands Golf and Country Club, narrowly missing power lines and a utility pole. There were no injuries in either case, but airport manager George Miller fielded a number of calls from
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Two hot air balloons that made unscheduled landings after flying too low over residential areas have left many Langley residents jittery. Both were Sundance Balloons, navigated by the same pilot. In the first incident, which occurred on July 29, the pilot was aiming for Langley Regional Airport
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residents who had been alarmed at the low altitude of the balloons as they made their unscheduled landings. Miller is responsible for airport operations at Langley. Miller said that when he learned of residents’ complaints that the pilot was drifting too low over Brookswood on Aug. 6, he wanted to know why, and called the pilot for a meeting.
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After they met, Miller allowed the pilot to go ahead with a flight on Aug. 7. The pilot assured him that he would take every measure not to fly below 500 feet over Langley City and would plan on bypassing the City to every extent possible, Miller said.
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Langley RCMP are warning the public about two separate incidents where people were impersonating police officers on Friday afternoon in Walnut Grove. Police were called on Sunday about the situations that took place around 1 p.m. at the Walnut Grove skate park in the 8800 block of Walnut Grove Drive. A tall, stocky African American man in a grey van approached a group of kids at the park and told them he was associated with police, said Langley RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Holly Marks. A short time later, a man and woman in their 20s, wearing trench coats, spoke to the same youths about a missing girl and identified themselves as police officers from the Langley RCMP. The two posing as police officers left in a newer Honda Civic that had two different overlapping licence plates. “Langley RCMP did not have any plainclothes officers in the area at that time looking for a missing girl,” said Marks. Police did issue an alert the day before about a missing 15-year-old Walnut Grove girl. She was found and police posted that update on their website on Friday. “The vehicle described does not belong to the Langley RCMP fleet,” she also remarked. Marks said it isn’t known if the two incidents are related in any way. “It is possible the two events occurring at the same location are purely coincidence,” she said. Every citizen has the right to contact their local detachment to confirm the identity of an individual representing themselves as a police officer. “No police officer from Langley Detachment would ever take issue with a member of the public wanting to confirm [police] identification during the course of an investigation,” said Supt. Derek Cooke, the officer in charge of the Langley detachment.
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