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Two years in child porn case
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Robert Bateman flanker Ralph Lee, centre, picks up yardage against Earl Marriott in the Junior Boys Fraser Valley Championship Rugby final Wednesday at Yale Secondary. The Timberwolves lost 29-24 in double OT (see page A42 for more). The senior boys rugby provincials start Monday in Abbotsford.
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false beard, sunglasses and gloves were not enough to conceal the identity of a man who robbed an Abbotsford bank Friday afternoon. According to APD Const. Ian MacDonald, Levente Kugler, 28, produced a note demanding cash to a teller at a bank in the 31200 block of Maclure Road at 3 p.m. and then fled the
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Kugler, who is from Richmond, is facing charges of theft over $5,000, possession of stolen property, robbery and dangerous driving. The second robbery happened Tuesday around 2:30 p.m., when police say Rich- RICHARD HEINO ard Wayne Heino, 21, produced a note demanding cash at a bank in the 2600 block of McMillan Road. see BANDIT, page A6
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n Abbotsford man has been sentenced to two years in custody for possessing child pornography. Lon Batchelor, 40, had previously pleaded guilty to one count of making child pornography available and one count of possession of child pornography. Batchelor came to the attention of police in 2007 when his name was listed as a customer of a Belgian man arrested by Interpol for selling pornographic videos online of his two daughters, aged eight and 10. Const. Ian MacDonald, with the Abbotsford police, said the charges stem from a 2008 search of a Mission apartment Batchelor lived in at the time that turned up a number of the Belgian child pornography films. “I think it will certainly send the message that if you’re a consumer of child pornography you are complicit in victimizing children,” MacDonald said. The charges were handed down in an Abbotsford courtroom Wednesday following a multi-agency, four-year international police investigation into child sexual abuse. Batchelor, who is already in custody, will serve another year in jail, followed by 30 months of probation. He will be listed as a sex offender, prohibited from the Internet and computers, and cannot attend places where children are likely to be for 20 years. MacDonald was clear that victimizing children will not be tolerated. “If you [produce or possess child pornography] and happen to reside in the city of Abbotsford, we’re coming after you.”
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