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Charges laid in wild police chase STOLEN TRUCK DROVE INTO ONCOMING TRAFFIC WHILE PURSUED THROUGH LANGLEY DA N FERGU SO N Tim e s Re po r t e r
A 32-year-old man has been charged with nine criminal offences in connection with a wild two-hour police pursuit that saw a stolen pickup truck driving the wrong way against rush hour traffic on Fraser Highway in Langley. Robert Anthony Pickford appeared in Port Coquitlam Provincial Court on Thursday afternoon, Feb. 19, the day after the driver of an red Ford F150 was dragged out of the truck by police once the chase ended on the Golden Ears Bridge Wednesday afternoon. By then, three of the tires on the truck had been blown out by spike belts deployed by police. The driver had to be taken to hospital by ambulance. The charges against Pickford include multiple counts of theft, breaking and entering and possessing tools for breaking and entering. Pickford’s next court appearance is set for early March. Court records show Pickford has several prior convictions for vehicle theft and dangerous driving, including a 2005 case where he was sentenced to two-and-a-half years for dangerous driving, stealing a vehicle and operating a vehicle “in order to evade a peace officer.” At the time, Provincial Court Judge Shehni Dossa described how Pickford “went through a lot of red lights onto oncoming traffic” during an early morning police pursuit that ended when Pickford hit a light standard. “ … you are fortunate there was so little traffic on the road and that nobody was hurt,” Dossa told Pickford. “You have a long record for someone so young,” Judge Dossa added. At the time, Pickford was on parole from a 2003 conviction for dangerous driving, possession of a stolen auto and drug possession. Continued Page 5
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A police pursuit of a wildly-driven red truck ran through several communities before coming to an end on the Golden Ears Bridge Wednesday afternoon.
Ministry will rule on schools business plans M O N I Q U E TA M M I N G A Tim e s Re po r t e r
What’s next, now that the Langley Board of Education has voted to keep Langley Secondary open and look to build a high school on the Willoughby slope? “Now that the board voted in
favour to submit a business plan to the ministry, we are working some of those details out and will submit the business case in a couple of weeks,” said secretary-treasurer David Green. From there, Green has no idea when the ministry will respond.
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“There is no guarantee that they will approve or move forward with the recommendation that we give them,” said board Chair Rob McFarlane on the school district’s website. He voiced his concerns about the ministry not liking the idea
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of partially replacing LSS. It is Langley’s oldest school and is in need of $19 million in seismic upgrading, and a further estimated $20 million for infrastructure and equipment upgrades. With the board’s decision last
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Tuesday, now the oldest parts of LSS will be torn down and rebuilt. Some of the newer sections will be kept intact, like the trades wing.
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