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Tuesday, FEBRuary 19, 2013
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Conspiracy trial continues in Kamloops Police agent testimony continues BY C AM FORTEMS Kamloops Daily News Staff Reporter
Suffering heroin withdrawal and coming down from a drug high, a sick Garry Shank sat in a Cranbrook jail and contemplated whether to hang himself. The self-described “scumbag” fleeing parole had just been arrested by RCMP late in October 2009, in possession of an assault rifle. He was headed back to federal jail, sent there after a tip from an informant to police, who knew where he was. The only people who were supposed to know Shank and his partner had just arrived in Cranbrook were three men, plus their boss in the local drug trade, who had driven them there from Calgary in order to kill a rival. Someone had turned him in. At 30 years old, Shank testified he’d spent more than half his life doing crimes or in jail. He never worked at a legitimate job. “At that point I had a breakdown,” Shank testified Friday in the witness box in the murder conspiracy trial of Lonnie Adams, Lorne Carry and Colin Correia. “I said I was looking to talk to someone. I was crying, having a full-time breakdown. I was so ready to be done with this life.” Shank said he believed one of the three men on trial or Chad Munroe, who had been recently shot in Cranbrook by the rival drug group, had turned him in to police. “I toyed with the idea of hanging myself,” he said in answers to questions from Crown prosecutor Ann Katrine Saettler. “I toyed with all kinds of ideas. One that seemed the most reasonable was to work with the police.” Shank was soon talking with RCMP from the B.C. gang unit, both while in Cranbrook cells and after he was returned to Kent penitentiary. See page 5
Stolen vehicle stopped with a spike belt Cpl Chris Ne wel For the Bulletin
RCMP arrested two subjects on February 16, after stopping a stolen vehicle using a spike belt. Elk Valley Detachment received a report of a gas theft in Sparwood around 7 p.m. A license plate number was obtained and further checks found the vehicle had been stolen from Calmar, Alberta. Elk Valley detachment advised the vehicle was last seen headed west towards Cranbrook
on Highway 3. Officers successfully deployed a spike belt near the game check east of Cranbrook around 8 p.m. The vehicle was stopped and two subjects were arrested, an 18 year old male and 15 year old female both from Alberta. They were held in custody pending an appearance before a Judicial Justice of the Peace February17. They are currently facing charges of Possession of Stolen Property, theft and Breach of Probation.
Photo courtesy D. Macleod
Sophie Banke (Germany) waves good-bye from the tarmac of the Canadian Rockies International Airport. Over 40 international students came and went during semester break as the Rocky Mountain International Student Program in School District No. 6 said good-bye to students departing at the end of first semester and hello to students arriving for the start of second semester. Over 90 international students attend high school in Kimberley, Invermere, Golden, and Revelstoke. For more photos, visit facebook.com/rmisp or twitter.com/rmisp. For more information on the program including how to become a host family, contact Mark Davies, Kimberley Homestay Coordinator, at 250-432-5904 or mark.davies@sd6.bc.ca.
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