Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - March 16, 1989, Winnipeg, Manitoba Tempo sizzling swimwear bikinis for men postage same size for summer 35 business merger creates Media giant Ken Thomson announces plans for Media giant Bent on acquisitions 45 focus Europe needs More workers immigrants Are the key to economic development Clear tonight 22 sunny tomorrow 12 March i Vrouir nips press Sun rises am Sun sets pm Moon rises pm Moon sets am real Ouide Winnipeg Home Denvey 957o550 a Tammy 9562330 second cuss he Oburton Numor 0286 assault my suspect commits suicide by Kevin Rollason hours before his third trial for sexual assault was scheduled to begin a former Winnipeg schoolteacher committed Neepawa ramp confirmed that Lionel Fleming died of a self inflicted gun shot wound at yesterday at his parents Mcbaine Hersh said he was stunned when he Learned about the shooting minutes before the court of Queens Bench trial was to its a real Wolch he was an intelligent Man with the potential to accomplish whatever could be he had every thing going for Wolch said he last spoke to Mcbain he was tormented about the idea he would be in the Media he was concerned about being in the Centre of attention he was but he want Overly friends shocked we were set to defend the he was pleading not guilty and we had witnesses to support the he was even prepared to family members refused a spokesman for the Kildonan East regional secondary where Mcbain taught English for 11 years until said the staff who knew him were surprised to hear of his there in a state of Shock he Ivan Mcbaine High school principal in said he remembered him As a quiet and clearcut Hes the last Type of Guy who you would think would be convicted of sexual Traill said last see former Page 4 wont Hurt a bit Janice Waddell treats a calf suffering from an abscessed Navel in the Shoal Lake clinic where she works with husband Bruce and another the three Are kept Busy at this time of year acting As midwives to drug shooting galleries closed by Nick Martin Winnipeg drug shooting galleries Are out of business for police sixty police officers descended on suspected drug dealers yesterday in an Early morning raid on seven Homes and a main Street arresting 13 people on drug three people were arrested tuesday when police used a Metal battering ram to storm a shooting gallery at 195 Henry the second time in two months police have raided the Winnipeg police Ray of the vice in police seized More than Worth of the drugs Talwin and More than in 200 a sawed off Shotgun and several items of stolen Johns said tuesdays raid was the fifth on Winnipeg shooting galleries buildings where drugs Are sold and used since january As part of a four month undercover investigation that has led to 31 the Henry Avenue building was the last shooting gallery in Winnipeg known to he now theres for he its cleaned up for the Short the arrests come about two months after a provincial court judge warned Steps must be taken to rid Winnipeg of shooting which he likened to opium Dens and style crack cocaine judge Ian in one of his last cases before issued the warning during a sentencing said he expects it will see two month Page 4 asian gangs fuel crimes police fear triads new wave of organized criminals by Michael Boci Urkiw Winnipeg free press Vancouver a criminal brain Drain from Hong Kong and other parts of Asia is fuelling crimes ranging from extortion and prostitution to drug smuggling and occasional contract killings in major North american a num Ber of Law enforcement officials attending a conference Here police officers who have confronted the triads criminal gangs of Young immigrant men from Hong Macao and Vietnam say the ring leaders Are far More sophisticated and violent than the officials new members Are inducted into the gangs with names like to sing Sui Kung lok and 14k an extraordinary ritual that involves drinking a mixture of blood and last a triad hit Man hacked a Hong Kong businessman to death with a meat Cleaver on a Tennis in another triad police found a Young chinese woman with Barbecue Forks imbedded in her face and both cases took place in Hong a 1988 report on organized crime in Canada ranked the triads As one of the most dangerous organized criminal groups in the Ca Nadian officials have identified 10 triads with More than 750 Active members and about associate the number of asian gangs and the seriousness of their crimes have surged to the Point where police in several countries Are pooling resources to Deal with the the biggest single threat is that organized asian gangs intend to take Over organized crime All Over the said James a Spe Cial prosecutor for British columbian coordinated gang activity Vancouver and Toronto have setup special units to fight the rising influence of organized crime from Hong Kong and other parts of in two senior officers have been assigned to Monitor organized asian criminal police suspect members of a Vietnam Ese gang Are responsible for the 1988 slaying of a Winnipeg a five Day conference that started Here on monday has drawn More than 400 Law enforce ment officials from 10 countries including Hong Macao and Thailand discuss asian organized gang the closed meeting is intended to help police forces Cope with the growing scope and sophistication of asian North America has become the 1 Centre of activity outside of Asia for triads because of the tremendous influx of people and capital from Hong in cities with Large asian communities such As Vancouver and officials Are finding gang activity see Hong Kong Page 4 demanded lawyer Calls court officers under trained by Janet Mcfarland Manitoba magistrates Are doing a terrible Job and the situation can not be allowed to a Winni Peg lawyer told the aboriginal jus Tice inquiry Heather Leonoff said the court also known As justices of the do not understand their jobs and Lack the training to do their work police beating the result has been such episodes As the so called ticket Gate affair involving provincial As Well As hundreds of examples of general incompetence and Lack of who also teaches at the University of Manitoba Law my experience has been that the Quality of service being provided by these types of judicial officers is of the lowest of she people simply being underutilized and under trained and there doing a terrible Job right even the jobs they Are they Are doing a terrible Job Leonoff said she has had to ask the chief provincial court judge to explain to magistrates they do not work for the police justices Are constantly in Contact with the police to ask their opinion on such issues As and will not act contrary to the police she magistrates sign sum search warrants and arrest they can refuse to sign if they believe the document is not reforms urged Leonoff recommended extensive reforms of the including d the creation of a corps of professional magistrates who Are formally trained in a yearlong University d the training of native justices to serve Reserve they should rotate through the smallest communities to serve As judicial d the creation of an office to Over see who would be re moved from the authority of the chief provincial court the director of the new office should be legally trained and be on Call for justices to d designating magistrates As youth court judges under the Young of fenders act and training them to hear matters under the Leonoff said As Well As being in the magistrates Are not using Many of the Powers Given them under the criminal for they could be used to hear preliminary inquiries and could Han dle trials on summary which Are less serious criminal native magistrates could hear the trials in their own languages and the see magistrates Page 4 for their Eye reporter Radha Krishnan Thampi has spent several weeks poring Over City Halls budget work ing which detail How councillors spend Winni Eggers tax Here is the second in the t overtime budgets increased by Radha Krishnan Thampi several civic departments have budgeted for significantly More in employee overtime costs this even though no increased workloads Are according to the cites confidential budget working Winnipeg City Hall and Council sources say the pattern is similar in most departments they All the current estimates on last years not actual the they is that budget figures dont reflect a departments actual and therefore can be if the province orders the City to find million right they can Cook the Book and find with out cutting any one an for the number of appeals filed at the Board of revision was Down by 25 per cent last year to about see overtime Page 4 i Canadian pair ices Silver Hamiota Lyndon Johnston and Cindy of skated to a Silver medal in Paris yesterday 55 ;