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‘Want him crippled or killed’? Gang enforcer describes negotiating hit on East Kootenay drug rival in Kamloops court
CAM FORTEMS Kamloops Daily News
Lifelong criminal Garry Shank described being given an AK-47 rifle and instructions to kill a drug rival in Cranbrook as payback for a shooting in 2009. Shank was testifying last week for a second day in B.C.
Supreme Court in Kamloops, in the murder conspiracy trial of Lonnie Adams, Lorne Carry and Colin Correia. He told the court he was picked up in Calgary by Correia and Chad Munro, who had been recently shot by a rival in the East Kootenay drug trade.
While on the road, Correia contacted Carry in Cranbrook, telling him he was bringing “two rabid dogs from Calgary,” Shank said. “It was basically retribution. One of his [Correia’s friend] had just been shot. It was escalating. Cranbrook was their town.”
Shank later signed on as a police agent and wore a recording device. But in his testimony Wednesday he described being on the run from police before that time, negotiating with Correia and Carry about the hit on a rival. “I asked if they were look-
ing to have him crippled or killed — whether they wanted me to spray his legs and cripple him or cut him in half,” Shank said in questioning by Crown lawyer Ann Katrine Saettler. Shank said he wanted $5,000 to cripple Doug Mahon; $10,000 to kill him.
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Cranbrook student wows at global science fair SAL LY MACD ON AL D Townsman Staff
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The Key City Theatre in Cranbrook was ground zero for V-Day, Friday, Feb. 15, which included a production of Eve Ensler’s “The Vagina Monologues.” Directed by the Tanya Laing Gahr, the cast also included Susan Hanson, Elizabeth Anne Adler, Anna Natanik, Danielle Nicholson, Andrea Muise Grossman, Carol Atherton, Candice Bridge, Shereen Samuels, Jocelyn Laing, Alexa Laing Moore, Shirley Green, Bonnie Harvey, Aislyn Standing, Michelle McCue and Jennifer Sterling Pierre.
A local high school student has taken her science project all the way to the international fair in Taiwan, and returned home with a fourth place finish. After wowing judges in Canada, Grade 12 Mount Baker student Keltie Murdoch took her environmental engineering project Geo Air to the Taiwan International Science Fair from January 29 to February 5. She placed fourth in the engineering category against students in grades nine to twelve from Taiwan, Mexico and Switzerland. “Winning an award this year was a complete surprise. I was surrounded by so many high-level projects that I didn’t expect to rank,” Keltie told the Townsman after returning to Cranbrook. “I found that the judges in my category seemed to like projects that examined local issues and looked at ways of solving them. While my project was simple, it was proven to effectively reduce a local issue.” Keltie was accompanied to the fair by her mentor, College of the Rockies instructor Sandi Lavery.
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