A12 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 17, 2001 a

News In Brief

On a year’s leave FORMER SKEENA NDP MLA and cabinet mini- ster Helmut Giesbrecht is taking a year before deciding if he’! return to his profession as a school

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in 1996 before being defeated this spring by Lib- eral Roger Harris, had been on leave from the schoo! district during his political career.

That leave continues, said Giesbrecht last week. In the meantime, he’s working on a variety of pro- jects, including helping to build outside decks.

Tools stolen

TOOLS STORED in a work trailer on the site of the new school under construction on Bailey St. proved to be too tempting for thieves.

Sometime overnight Oct. 10-11 a work trailer at the construction site on the bench was broken into and several tools stolen, said police.

The aluminum door was pried open and police ate investigating a set of wet footprints left behind inside the trailer.

Missing are two blue Makita circular saws, a new, blue Makita hammer drill, a yellow Milwau- kee half-inch drill with cord and a Sach Dalmer chainsaw, Also stolen was a builder’s level and two Makita grinders.

Anyone with information about this or any other crime is asked to call Crimestoppers at 635-8477,

Traffic reduced tering a forged document

THE CLOSURE of the airport here following the and failure to appear in Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the United States hurt court. what would otherwise have been a pretty good pas- Police are hoping to in- senger movement month. terview Dressel after a Airport manager Rick Reed reports that 7,353 fraudulent money order people either landed or took off, a figure that is was used in Thornhill. pretty much averdge when compared to the same On Sept. 2 a caucasian month in 2000 and 1999, “We probably would have male made a large pur- been in tine with our peak years if Sept. 11 had not chase from a Thornhill occurred,” said Reed. automotive centre using a The closure of the airport resulted in the cancel- Bank of Montreal money ling of 22 landings and take offs of either Hawkair order issued from Burnaby, or Air Canada aircraft, Flights were missed be- police said. cause of weather and four for mechanical reasons. The original was valued Reed isn’t predicting any financial setback from at four dollars but it had missed fees charged to people to use the airport. been altered to read $400,

said police. Scam alert

The man used the name Allan Haul when making PRINCE RUPERT RCMP are again warning the transaction and he is people to watch out for people from Nigeria saying believed to have passed they work for a government agency in that country. other forged documents in They offer a fee to transfer large sums of money the greater Terrace and they say they can’t get out of that country. The New Hazelton area, police hook is they want bank account numbers and once said. they have those, the account could be stripped. Police are reminding “Anyone responding to any request for personal business owners not to ac- bank account information should be very careful,” cept money orders unless

say RCMP. two pieces of picture iden-

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~-Matching- signatures. TERRACE RCMP are asking for your help in sol- Anyone with informa- ving two break-ins. The first break-in saw thieves tion about this or the other steal several power tools, hand tools and a pressure cases of forged documents washer from a locked workshop on the west side of are asked to call the local Lakelse Lake. Police believe the suspects knew detachment at 638-7400, the occupant wouldn’t be home at the time. They say two four wheel ATVs were likely used for transportation.

The second break-in occurred at the BC Hydro station on Matson Rd. in Old Rema this summer. Suspects stole an estimated 313,000 worth of tools from trucks parked there by cutting the bumpers with a chopsaw, say police.

Police believe the suspects had specific know- ledge about this substation site and the time oppor- tunity to commit the crime. Call Crimestoppers at ‘638-8477 if you have information about this crime.

TERRACE RCMP are wating business owners to be cautious when accept- ing money orders. During the month of September three fraudulent

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Two of those were Royal Bank money orders originally made out in the amount of three dollars but were altered to read $300.

An unknown caucasian woman used both money orders at two different bu- sinesses while making a purchase and received money back, police said.

And local RCMP have issued a warrant for-the ar- rest of Allan Bruce Dres- sel. He is wanted for theft, possession of stolen prop- erty obtained by crime, ut-

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