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THURSDAY February 21, 2013 The Central Okanagan’s Best-Read Newspaper www.kelownacapnews.com
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Suspect flees after two people murdered Man and woman found dead inside a black SUV near Auburn Road
WEST KELOWNA murder victim Tiffany Goruk and a man believed to be victim Jeremy Daniel Snow.
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The RCMP Major Crimes Unit has confirmed the identity of the two victims involved in the West Kelowna double homicide, one of whom is connected to an infamous anti-trafficking operation known as Operation Blade Runner. Tiffany June Goruk, 30, and Jeremy Daniel Snow, 33, both from West Kelowna, were found dead inside an SUV Monday
night after the vehicle crashed into the side of the Terravita condo complex in West Kelowna, careening into a lamppost along the way. Shortly after arriving on scene at approximately 11 p.m., West Kelowna RCMP discovered the deaths were not due to the crash, but rather that the two had been murdered. The RCMP Major Crimes Unit was called in to assist. Goruk, a mother of two young boys, did not have a criminal re-
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Information from that arrest led to a sting that took down 24-year-old Revelstoke mountain bike enthusiast Samuel Brown, a young man who lived and died on the edge. Brown was known in the mountain bike community as an aggressive rider and trail builder, and the man behind a hamster wheel-like contraption called the Disconstructed Wheel, which was featured in the bike film New World Disorder 3. His death received national news coverage after he killed himself in a supposedly sui-
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cord, but police confirmed Snow had been jailed in the United States after he was arrested for his involvement in a helicopter drug smuggling operation busted by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and RCMP in 2009. Operation Blade Runner, as the joint operation was known, began with a routine traffic stop by the Utah Highway Patrol in Salt Lake City, which ended in the seizure of 83 kilograms of cocaine and the arrest of two men— 50-year-old Leonard Ferris, of Nevada, and 53-year-old Ross Legge, of Alberta—the Capital News sister paper, the Revelstoke Times Review reported at the time.
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The RCMP Southeast District Major Crimes Unit and the West Kelowna RCMP are investigating a double murder discovered Monday night after an SUV careened into the Terravita condominium complex. Police were called to the complex at 11 p.m. Monday after reports of a single vehicle collision at one of the complex buildings just off Auburn Road. Upon arrival, officers found a black SUV, which had driven into a parking lot entrance light standard. Two individuals were dead inside the vehicle and an examination of the scene determined the deaths were not a result of the collision, but due to homicide. Witnesses said a man was seen fleeing from the vehicle in the immediate aftermath of the crash and a police service dog was deployed, tracking the suspect’s trail for several kilometres. By Tuesday, RCMP could say they believe the suspect left the scene down a walking trail onto Bentley and Daimler roads, in a southwest direction through the residential area. The dogs tracked the scent to Bylands Road, across Highway 97, and lost it i n the Ross Road area in the vicinity of the Mount Boucherie Complex. Malcolm Yarborough, a resident at Terravita for 15 months, said he heard “a little noise” before he went to bed at midnight, but had no reason to think anything was wrong. “I was very surprised to hear about it,” he said. “This is an upscale, top-of-the-line complex…I wouldn’t have expected this kind of thing to happen right here.” He added this event doesn’t make him feel any less safe in the area he lives. “It’s one of those things that could happen anywhere; unfortunately, it happened here.” Last week it was reported crime had dropped in West Kelowna by nearly one-third from 2009 to 2011. Although the timing is coincidental, Mayor Doug Findlater said Monday night’s incident was unique. “This is a very uncommon occurrence in terms of what it appears it may be. This is a unique situation and not reflective of the community in general,” said Findlater. “Obviously it’s a tragedy when something like this happens to anyone.”
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