Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 8, 1988, Winnipeg, Manitoba 12 Winnipeg free april 1988 Marjorie Mckay holds As they Survey fire damage to Mother drops child from burning suite up a single Mother saved her Twoy Earold child from a fire that gutted their apartment by dropping him out a second floor win Dow into the arms of a passerby who was apparently too modest to hang fire department officials said the boy May have started the fire before waking his sleeping he came and i heard him Marjorie Mckay said a Day after the i woke up and saw the the Mother i took him to the when i opened the window the smoke came Rushing i kept her hanging outside the living room window until a passerby came said neighbor Henry who pulled the apart ment complexes fire alarm after hearing the Childs i just heard Hanson screaming and i looked out the Balcony window and saw the Mother hold the baby out the Michel Mckay said the Mother called for help for at least a if somebody didst i would have 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up to the front door of a suburban it said the Money the family was rerouting through Montreal Banks to Swiss accounts came from the wholesale marketing of uncut heroin in new York and new Money laundering is a process in which the Cash proceeds from crime Are deposited in banking ins Titu then quickly transferred to other usually out of the coun the which Breaks no Laws in protects the source of the initial in the United it is illegal to accept a depos it of More than without re porting it to the Treasury depart the italian police issued arrest warrants for several family Mem Bers in 1983 on charges of drug mafia membership and the Gazette extradition requests for the men were sent to the Canadian govern ment in Canadian authorities told the newspaper they have not proceeded with the requests because they Are awaiting completion of an ramp investigation of the family members for suspected drug British customs has also filed warrants for the arrest of some of the family members for their activities in the Gazette police records in England and Canada show the family ran a drug trafficking ring from 1983 to 1985 that funnelled heroin and hash ish from Thailand and India through England and Montreal to new the newspaper police in England and Canada have so far traced deposits made by the family to four financial institutions the Montreal City and District savings Bank now called the Laurentian the National Bank of the Canadian Hel Lenic Trust now called the National Bank of Greece and an Exchange House called fore co Bank records show huge and fre quent Cash members of the family would first test a Branch with Small then if no questions were the amounts were gradually at times rising nation to More than the Gazette Denis Vic president of Security for the Laurentian told the newspaper the Bank had no comment on this Dimitris Vic president of the National Bank of Greece said nobody currently at the Bank has any knowledge of de posits made in strict policy he said the Bank is very strict about accepting Cash deposits Over and will refuse them if the customer cannot explain their Ori Marcel chief of Security at the National said in an interview yesterday his institution has a similar whenever were not satisfied with the Way an account is being we close he we Reserve the right to close an account if we Arent satisfied with the Way its being run or have questions the depositor wont Vigneault said he was not with National Bank at the time the depos its were made and that the file has been turned Over to the the extent of the family Empire remained undetected in Canada until when the ramp and Brit ish customs began piecing the Puzzle the Gazette in venezuelan officials arrested four men for drug Traffick including two canadians with close ties to the the newspaper British customs officials want two family members for questioning and last month venezuelan police Leonal Avila came to where he met ramp officers to study their intelligence material on the family scheme hatched in Toronto up reputed colombian cocaine Baron Carlos Lehder Learned a new Way to smuggle the drug into the United states during a meeting in Toronto in Lehder idols were Adolf Hitler and John Lennon had been smuggling Small amounts of the but after the Toronto meeting he began using air planes from the his drug importing trial has been he was to cocaine transportation As Henry Ford was to attorney Robert Merkle said in his opening statement last no married in Toronto but his 1976 business trip was not the Only time Lehder visited transcripts from the trial he married his first wife in Toron to in february listing his occupation on the marriage certificate As and he was almost nabbed trying to illegally enter the United states from Quebec in March captured in a shootout in Colombia last year and quickly extradited to is charged with smuggling three tonnes of co Caine into the United states from a tiny bahamian Island Between 1978 and annual wedding band Sale 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separate indictment in he is alleged to be a Leader of Colombia Medellin thought to be responsible for 80 per cent of the cocaine smuggled into the United in the Early cocaine smugglers mostly shipped Small amounts of the drug hidden on airline Passen Gers or in at a meeting held at Toronto Holiday inn in october 1976 Lehder heard of a different approach from american lawyer Barry the trial was Kane said that plan loads of co Caine could be flown into the United states from the hidden among the heavy Moman pop traffic Between the Caribbean nation and the in less than a Kane would Fly 200 kilograms of cocaine from Colombia to the Bahamas and then on to the prosecution Kane met Lehder through a third Man George a convicted mar Ijuana smuggler from California who also attended the Toronto meet Lehder had Access to unlimited amounts of cocaine from Colombia a former student Radical from the had Access to a drug distribution network in it was Carlos leaders plan to have colombian drug families Pool their cocaine so Lehder could exercise a monopoly Over trans Merkle and Jung later testified they picked an unusual location for their organizational meetings they chose Canada among other Lehder was deported from the United Lehder and Jung met a second time in Toronto february and on this Lehder mar ried his first Yemel the marriage was conducted at 8 on in a private Home in a suburb of the Beverley Les has a record of conducting the ceremony but said yesterday he does not recall the next Lehder decided to sneak into the United states and operate out of near the Lehder decided to let his Driver take the car across he would sneak in through the customs officials found leaders personal Lehder escaped As officials hunted for him in the by the next Lehder was firmly ensconced on normans a bahamian Island that he turned into a sophisticated smuggling the prosecution Tough bylaw muzzles dogs Edmonton up dog owners in Edmonton will face the highest mandatory fines in Canada under a revised draft says the City lawyer who helped draft a vicious dog under changes recommended by mayor Laurence owners of dogs that attack other animals or a human without provocation would pay a Fine the suggested by the cites Legal depart Decore also succeeded in get Ting a proposed new Fine for any pit Bull owner without an insurance policy to protect the victim of an attack by his on decors All other pro posed fines were raised to from the the Law department had the owner of a pit Bull or any other vicious dog would be fined for allowing his dog to run at and the Pel would be destroyed if the owner did not claim it within 96 the draft must be approved by Council before it becomes ;