The Tri-City News, July 10, 2013

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‘Suspicious’ deaths after fire IHIT looking into cause of death of 2 found in house By Jason Roessle THE TRI-CITY NEWS

Two people are dead and the region’s homicide investigators have been brought in following a house fire early Tuesday in the 1100-block of Cottonwood Avenue in Coquitlam. The blaze broke out shortly after midnight in a home near Como Lake Park. Before Coquitlam firefighters arrived, witnesses saw smoke billowing from the house and entered the house to look for potential victims, only to be overcome by smoke and forced to leave, said Sgt. Jennifer Pound of the Integrated Homicide Investigation Team (IHIT). The bodies of a man and woman were found by firefighters. Attempts to revive the two were unsuccessful and they were declared dead on scene, Pound said. GARY MCKENNA/THE TRI-CITY NEWS

see IDS OF VICTIMS, page A7

The Integrated Homicide Investigation Team was on the scene of a fire in Coquitlam yesterday after two bodies were found in a home located on Cottonwood Avenue, near Como Lake Park.

Complaint filed over cop takedown outside PM pub Video on YouTube of Saturday arrest By Gary McKenna THE TRI-CITY NEWS

A complaint has been launched against the Port Moody Police Department after a video was posted on YouTube of an officer throwing a man to the pavement during an arrest on the weekend. Close to 10,000 people had viewed the clip as of Tuesday morning and

police issued a statement saying the matter had been turned over to the Professional Standards Section for further investigation. The video stems from an arrest that took place outside the Golden Spike Pub shortly after midnight last Saturday. Police were responding to reports that a man, Herbert Ramos, and his girlfriend, Tracey Ferris, were arguing with bar security staff. see DIFFERING, page A8

Coquitlam residents will vote in a fall byelection By Janis Warren THE TRI-CITY NEWS

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A screen capture from a video showing a Port Moody Police takedown of a man outside the Golden Spike Pub.

The race is now on to fill the Coquitlam council seats left vacant this spring by two civic politicians elected to provincial jobs. On Monday, city council voted 4-2 in favour of holding a byelection in October to replace councillors Linda Reimer and Selina Robinson. (BC Liberal Reimer and Robinson, of the NDP, won seats in the ridings of Port Moody-Coquitlam and

GIMME SHELTER PoCo council votes down extension for homeless shelter: pg. A3 Coquitlam-Maillardville respectively in the May 14 provincial election.) For much of the 38-minute debate, council went back and forth between the right of taxpayers to vote and the need to save their dollars. In the end, it came down to Coun. Lou Sekora — who in 1997

prompted a byelection when he quit as mayor to become a Liberal MP — to allow the campaign to proceed. Sekora argued, “Canada is what it is today because of the people who had fought in the war” to defend democracy. see ‘ONE OF THE’, page A6


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