Tuesday July 29, 2014 (Vol. 39 No. 60)
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Heading south: White Rock-South Surrey Baseball’s Keith Manby is the sole Canadian on the diamond this week at the All-American Games in Kissimee, Fla. i see page 19
Andrew Leduc’s family angry fatal accident deemed not criminal
No charges in year-old hit-and-run Kevin Diakiw Black Press
Photo courtesy CBC News
Langley’s Andrew Leduc was struck and killed last August.
A family is angered that no charges will be laid against a contractor for the RCMP who left the scene after running down Andrew Leduc last year. A civilian consultant working with Mounties on a traffic accident investigation was involved in a fatal hit-and-run on Aug. 7, 2013 in the 19500-block of Langley Bypass. The driver of the semi-truck was
eastbound in the curb lane at 3 a.m. when he struck and killed Leduc, 37, of Langley. The driver did not stop to render assistance. Leduc died at the scene. The consultant driving the semitruck had been working that day on a re-creation of an accident involving a semi-truck that killed Surrey RCMP Const. Adrian Oliver in November 2012, at the intersection of 64 Avenue and 148 Street.
Thursday, RCMP said criminal charges will not be laid. Leduc’s brother Adam told CBC News he was extremely upset to receive the news. “I was pretty shocked. I was pretty angry,” he said. “I can’t see how you can hit a guy like that, leave him lying in the street to die and continue on and no charges whatsoever, not even a traffic ticket.” Surrey RCMP Major Crimes Sec-
tion concluded its investigation after eight months, but Mounties called in the Office of the Police Complaints Commissioner (OPCC) to ensure the integrity of the investigation. This month, the OPCC ruled the RCMP finding was correct. As the driver was not a police officer, the incident did not fall under the purview of the Independent Investigation Office (IIO). –with files from CBC News
No time to relax: RCMP
Anti-gang tactics lauded Jeff Nagel Black Press
The battle against gangs in B.C. has made big advances but now is not the time to relax, a top B.C. Mountie told a conference on youth-gang prevention in Surrey Thursday. RCMP Chief Supt. Dan Malo said he believes redoubled community efforts and new policing tactics can further dent organized crime and prevent a resurgence of the gangland bloodbath of Dan Malo five years ago. RCMP “We’re down in the statistics,” Malo told delegates at the Acting Together gangprevention conference organized by Kwantlen Polytechnic University. “A number of (gangsters) are in jail, a number of them are dead, a number of them have changed their behaviour and others we have forced to change their behaviour.” There have been just three gang-linked murders in B.C. so far this year, way i see page 4
In the line of fun
Boaz Joseph photo
The Peggy Thomson Dancers (based at the Brookswood Senior Centre) perform a line dance during the South Surrey Festival and Safety Fair on July 26 at the South Surrey Recreation and Arts Centre. The free family block party event also included a kids bike safety rodeo, seniors tea, art show, skateboard jam and more.
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