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DECEMBER 20, 2016 | Volume 29 No. 153
Teichrieb waits until 2017 on bail decision TIM PETRUK
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Kamloops has two overdose-prevention sites, one at the Crossroads Inn at Seymour Street and Sixth Avenue downtown and one at the ASK Wellness Centre at 433 Tranquille St. on the North Shore.
RECORD MONTH FOR OD DEATHS DALE BASS
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The month of November brought the highest number of overdose drug deaths in B.C. for a single month in recent memory, according to the latest statistics from the BC Coroners Service. Provisional data shows 128 people in the province died
as a result of illicit drug use in November, an average of more than four deaths a day. The previous high for a single month was 82 in January. To the end of November, there had been 32 overdose deaths in Kamloops. In all of 2014 and 2015, there were just seven such deaths in the city each year; in 2013, there were eight.In the past decade, the only other years that saw the
statistic hit double digits were 2007, when there were 11, and 2010, when there were 10. The November numbers bring the total overdose drug deaths in B.C. for the year to 755, an increase of 70 per cent over the number of deaths occurring the same time period last year. Fentanyl remains a factor in a high number of the deaths. See 11 DIED, A6
Kristopher Teichrieb will need to wait until the new tear to find out whether he will be granted bail. The 39-year-old has been in jail since June, when he is alleged to have used a baseball bat to beat an 18-year-old into a coma after finding him on or near his Brocklehurst property. Teichrieb is facing one count each of attempted murder and assault with a weapon in relation to the incident. Jessie Simpson, who has since turned 19, has been in a coma since a short time after the alleged altercation. Simpson’s friends and family have said he was out celebrating high school graduation on the evening before the attack and indicated he may have been looking for a group of friends when he was attacked. In July, a Kamloops provincial court judge denied Teichrieb’s bail application. His lawyers have alleged the judge made a number of errors and sought his release yesterday in B.C. Supreme Court.
Kristopher Teichrieb
Jessie Simpson
The evidence presented at both bail hearings is bound by courtordered publication bans. Teichrieb’s bail review was scheduled for November, but it was delayed when prosecutors laid a new unrelated charge — an allegation he counselled another inmate at Surrey Pretrial Centre to commit an assault. The bail review took place in a Vancouver courtroom, but was shown streaming on a TV inside the Kamloops Law Courts. Teichrieb does not have a criminal record. He has elected to be tried by judge and jury and his four-day preliminary inquiry is scheduled to begin in Kamloops provincial court on Jan. 23. A decision on his bail is expected in the first week of January.
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