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Outside West Langley Elementary School Tuesday morning (from left), Gold Janzen, Louise Menzies, Fran McLeod and Shar O’Connell were picketing in support of rotating teacher walkouts staged by the BCTF.
Serial robber took 11-year-old along MONIQUE TAMMINGA Times Reporter
the driver, said the court judgment. The first robbery was on Mother’s Day 2011 at a Langley Subway. He was found guilty of robbing the Subway with his girlfriend and her 11-year-old daughter waiting in the vehicle for him. In the Mother’s Day robbery, Heatley told investigators that he needed money because his girlfriend’s daughter needed food. According to the court judgment published April 7, the daughter testified at the trial, saying that she had an idea Heatley had committed a robbery because her mother told her he
A 28-year-old Langley man has been found guilty of robbing seven food stores, mostly in Langley. On one occasion, he took his girlfriend’s 11-year-old daughter with him. Michael Heatley was found guilty on seven counts of robbery by Supreme Court Judge Josephson after a trial in New Westminster last month. Heatley said the robberies were committed to buy drugs for him and his girlfriend. His girlfriend was originally arrested as an accomplice, because she was with him on most of the robberies as
was getting them lunch. Instead he came back with “lots of money” and her mom drove away very quickly. Her mother also asked her to find black gloves for Heatley, which he is believed to have used in the robbery. In each case, Heatley masked his face and sometimes produced a knife, but always wore gloves. He was also found guilty of robbing a Subway in Chilliwack on Aug. 26, 2011. On Aug. 29 he robbed a Booster Juice in Port Moody and then another one in Aldergrove. Heatley told police he was in the area in Aldergrove because his girlfriend was pick-
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ing up a methadone prescription. The next day he robbed the Langley Booster Juice. Each time getting away with hundreds of dollars. On Sept. 1, 2011 he robbed a Subway in Surrey. On that same day he robbed the Fox and Hounds liquor store in Aldergrove. He was arrested following that robbery. Heatley’s defence tried to argue that Heatley confessed to the crimes falsely to protect his girlfriend from charges. The judge said what ever the motive, the “resulting confessions were nonetheless reliable.”
The bus driver in the thick of the violent assault, where a 43-year-old Surrey woman allegedly attacked a mother and her three very young children, is speaking out about the role he played in the shocking situation on May 20. Unifor Local 111 President Nathan Woods says the bus driver involved is very upset that inaccurate information has misrepresented his role in NATHAN acting quickly WOODS and appropriately to end the situation and ensure the safety of all passengers. A fellow passenger posted 20 seconds of the fight, which shows the bus driver in the background. The video has gone viral. “This violent episode with one passenger threatening a mother and her three children was deeply disturbing to the bus driver, but he moved quickly to separate the two women and the children and to get the instigator off the bus,” Woods said Saturday. Continued Page 4
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