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If you’re not careful, you may be helping invasive species take over 6 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2010
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MAN FOUND SHOT DEAD IN SOUTH SURREY DRIVEWAY Why no reaction from neighbour? Because ‘it’s happening everywhere.’
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James Miller convicted of sexually assaulting boy Ted COLLEY Staff Reporter
SURREY – A self-styled crusader against youth violence was convicted Thursday in B.C. Supreme Court of sexually assaulting an 11-year-old boy. James Miller, of North Delta, was found guilty of sexual assault, sexual interference of a person under 14 and sexual exploitation. He will be sentenced at a later date yet to be determined. The victim cannot be named under the terms of a publication ban. Justice Bruce Josephson said when he considered testimony offered during trial, he found that of the victim, now aged 19, to be credible and consistent when he described Miller’s crimes. He did not believe Miller’s attempt to explain away the accusations.
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Police investigators begin the task of collecting evidence from Surrey crime scene on Thursday morning. Tom ZYTARUK Staff Reporter
SURREY – A rural South Surrey neighbourhood erupted in gunfire Thursday morning shortly before police found a middle-aged man shot dead at the end of a driveway in the 17600-block of 24th Avenue. Cpl. Dale Carr, spokesman for the Integrated Homicide
Investigation Team, said at the scene that investigators were trying to identify the victim, who was believed to be in his late 40s or early 50s. “We have a sense of who he is,” Carr said. “We’re trying to confirm that identity.” He said it’s “a touch too early” to say if police believe the shooting was drug- or gangrelated or if the victim was an
intended target. Shots were heard at about 7 a.m., just east of 176th Street. A neighbour’s car was then carjacked but its owner was not injured and police have since recovered the vehicle in Langley. Two people found inside the house are “probably considered witnesses at this point,” Carr said. Interviews were being
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conducted at the Surrey RCMP detachment building but no arrest had been made or suspect had been identified by press time. Carr said it’s “difficult to say” if the man was shot in the house or in the driveway. “We do not feel this is a dump site.” see STREET CLOSED page 5