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Second big raid nets heroin and loads of cash PAUL RUDAN CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
For the second time in two weeks, Campbell River Mounties executed one of the biggest drug busts in the city’s history. This time RCMP officers seized 75 grams of heroin, an assortment of other drugs and $226,000 in cash during a Friday raid of a Carlyle Crescent residence. “This is a large amount of currency seized from a residence, and the second large seizure in a short time,” said Cpl. Poppy Hallam in a news release. On Feb. 15, Mounties seized 11 ounces of cocaine and $159,000 in
cash during a bust of residence located in the vicinity of Alder Street and Coronation Crescent. Three people were arrested at the scene and charged with trafficking. They are due to appear in Campbell River provincial court on March 18. Hallam said the two busts are unrelated. In the latest raid, a 43-year-old Campbell River man was arrested and later released on conditions. His name was not released. Police are recommending he be charged with possession of a controlled substance and possession for the purpose of trafficking.
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A police photo shows the wads of drug cash seized from a Carlyle Crescent home on Friday.
Rural directors get retroactive, 50 per cent pay raise KRISTEN DOUGLAS CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
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Morning crunch A man and a woman in a Ford Taurus stationwagon were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries following a collision Tuesday, shortly before 9 a.m., on Dogwood Street and 16th Avenue. The accident involved three vehicles, the Ford, a commercial van and a blue Toyota pickup. The intersection is one of the worst in the city for accidents.
Area directors on the Strathcona Regional District board are in for a big pay raise. Directors, at the regular board meeting last Thursday, voted to increase four directors’ annual base salaries from $20,699 to $31,128 retroactive to 2012. The area directors getting the raise are Brenda Leigh (Oyster Bay-Buttle Lake), Jim Abram
(Quadra Island), Noba Anderson (Cortes Island) and Gerald Whalley (Kyuquot-Nootka). The raise will come from the electoral area directors’ budget. But not all directors were on the same page, despite the raise already being endorsed by directors at a previous Committee of the Whole (COW) meeting. John MacDonald (Sayward) disagreed with the pay raise being retroactive to last year. “I think the effective date should Continued on A3
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