SEVERAL HELICOPTERS, including this large one from the Coast Guard,

were used last week by police as they swooped down on a northern lake to re-
cover a group of American children living with their grandparents, The grand-
parents were arrested in immigration charges. RANDY DERKSEN PHOTO

Police use choppers
on northern mission
to recover children

AN RCMP-led raid on a

cabin in remote mountains ,

northeast of Meziadin

Junction ended last week.

in the successful removai
of five U.S. children.
Four children aged four

to 10 were met by their °

parents and returned to
Washington State, said
RCMP Staff Sgt. Greg
Funk.

A 57-year-old man and
his 49-year-old wife —
grandparents of the child-
ren — were arrested under
the Immigration Act for il-
legally entering Canada.

Their 12-year-old son is
in the care of the ministry
of child and family deve-
lopment pending a deci-
sion of the Immigration
and Refugee Board.

The family had been
staying east of Terrace at
the ghost town of Pacific
for much of this year, Funk
said.

They were visited by
police in May after can-
cerns from other U.S. rela-
tives about their health,
Funk said, but the children
were in no danger then.

They had been directed
to leave Canada, he
added, The adults were be-
lieved to have entered
B.C. from Alaska.

The family then began
living in a trapper’s cabin
at Panorama Lake, near’
the headwaters of the

Skeena River, about 150.

kilometres southeast of
Iskut.

Renewed concerts
about the children promp-
ted police and other agen-
cies to intervene, Funk
said,

“The primary reason
was the wellbeing of the
children and secondary is-
sues were any immigration
“warrants,” he said.

RCMP and Coast Guard
helicopters landed at least
eight emergency response
team members, RCMP ne-
gotiators, three police dogs
and other personnel on the
shore of the lake on Sept,
4,

The woman, her 24-

“The amount of
effort that went
into this was
amazing.”

year-old son, and four of
the children were removed
without incident, Funk
said.

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year-old son were found
the next day. They had left

the camp on bicycles on '

route to Iskut.

All children were in
good health, he said.

Funk described the fa-
mily as being on an
“extended camping vaca-
tion” and said it was un-
clear whether they were
going to try to overwinter
at the high mountain lake
or move back to Alaska.

One observer praised

the RCMP handling of the:

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“The amount of effort
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amazing,” said Randy
Derksen, a local man who
flew as a spotting pilot.

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there.”

Helicopters performed a
number of simulated land-
ings on the lake’s beaches
to make it appear authori-
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said,

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