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Police charge man with assault on NV teen James Weldon
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A Vancouver man is facing criminal charges after he allegedly sexually assaulted a North Vancouver teen he found through an iPhone application.
Brent Tynan, 54, was arrested in Vancouver April 13 after he reportedly arranged a rendezvous with the 15-yearold through a networking program called Grindr. The free software, designed for the iPhone and the iPod Touch, is intended to allow gay and bisexual men to find and socialize with other men in their neighbourhood. The application has the usual chat and photo posting functions found on higher traffic sites such as Facebook or Lavalife, but unlike those services, Grindr makes use of the mobile devices’ GPS locators to let users transmit their location on a map. The North Vancouver RCMP, who headed the investigation, declined to See Friendship page 3
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JUST fishin’ in the rain, this intrepid outdoorsman stays dry at Rice Lake in North Vancouver while trying to land the big one Saturday. The Lower Seymour Conservation Reserve was also the scene of a several stewardship activities planned to celebrate Earth Day.
Investors out $10M sue WV tycoon Jane Seyd
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A West Vancouver businessman has been banned from the stock market in British Columbia and faces a hearing before the B.C. Securities Commission as well as lawsuits from former investors who claim he swindled them out of up to $10 million. The B.C. Securities Commission has already temporarily suspended Luc Castiglioni while it looks into claims that he took millions of dollars from 63 investors between 2008 and 2009 and
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Luc Castiglioni to face B.C. Securities Commission hearing
siphoned the money off for his personal use while lying to investors about it. When investors complained to the security commission in the spring of 2009, commission staff allege Castiglioni lied to regulatory staff, claiming $7.5 million of the money was safely socked away in a Swiss bank account. Later checks by investigators revealed only $10,000 left in the account, which wasn’t held by Castiglioni’s
investment companies. They added statements given to the commission by Castiglioni “appear to be forged.” A hearing into those allegations takes place May 6. Castiglioni is also being sued in B.C. Supreme Court by former investors who have claimed he used their money for personal gain, including the purchase of a $2.5 million house at 2367 Nelson Avenue in West Vancouver. Investors have placed a notice on title of the property and are demanding to be paid back the millions of dollars they say Castiglioni duped them out of.
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