Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - January 14, 1994, Winnipeg, Manitoba Hie plot thickens arrest warrants were issued yesterday in Kerrigan assault Case d1 48 pages vol 122 no 44 publications mail registration 0286 Winnipeg free press get t Post 600 t get Post oils de cily 754 in Ontario weekly Home delivery wkly Post in Winnipeg Why 09 Post outside City january 1004 golfers plates dont make Cut by Carreen Maloney staff reporter a Winnipeg golfer drove into the rough when she devised a plan to foil robbers who target Florida Terry is facing felony charges for falsifying a Florida licence she had heard about attacks on Florida tourists and was scared she would become a victim with her Canadian licence i was fearful i was going to be a Starsiak told the fort Myers news she plans to stay in Florida brushing up her Golf game for police make big heroin seizure Florida police Nab City woman another month and be reached she was arrested wednesday but her Winnipeg Peter of Andrews Golf and country said Starsiak was worried about the attacks before she drove from Winnipeg in the two had talked about How a Florida gators bumper sticker might help imply a tourist want she was determined not to become a Ewert i cant blame her for doing in surprised nobody has done it Florida Cape Coral police said Starsiak bought an imitation plate then photocopied a valid licence plate to get an outline of the decals that appear on a Florida she then painted the Cut them out and pasted them on the when she was stopped in a her Legal Canadian plates were in the Shes a very Good said Cape Coral police Thomas Dennis said officers were suspicious of the plate because its numbers and letters we rent a sequence they were familiar Starsiak was taken to the Lee county then who works at the Andrews pro decided to travel around Florida hoping to Brush up on her game because a sore shoulder haunt allowed her much playing time last Ewert making a counterfeit licence plate is a third degree felony in Dennis it carries a maximum Fine of and maximum five year jail by Paul Wiecek police reporter Winnipeg police seized heroin valued at million after they arrested a 22 year old Man who they suspect made a big mistake on his first Sale his client was an undercover when he was he didst he was basically in a state of vice Ray Johns told a news conference drug payoff not equal to b2 Johns said police arrested the who has no previous criminal and seized just under three kilograms of heroin wednesday night after an undercover officer posing As a Toronto heroin dealer made a buy in a hotel Johns estimated the Street value of the seized drugs at the second largest single drug seizure in Manitoba police began their investigation of the Man immediately following the end of operation dealer last in which million in heroin was confiscated and 16 suspects were Johns undercover officers received a tip that a local Man was making plans to fill the drug void Cre ated by operation he was hoping he was going to be Able to just step in and take Johns with the help of the Canada customs and the heroin unit of the metro Toronto police Johns said police kept tabs on a suspect until they were Able to set up a Deal Khushal of Para Shin is charged with two counts of trafficking in heroin and one count of Possession of heroin for the Pur pose of Johns said police still Arent sure How the her oin was smuggled into Canada from its suspected source in but he said investigators believe More than one person was this was a firs time Deal for these he Johns said the Man lived at a Home with his two elderly emigres from polishing their Steps Wendell free press Westview elementary school students Samantha and Chris rehearse their dance routine in preparation for last nights Celebration of ukrainian new years eve Fin option route now closed to Lousy ticket scofflaws by Alexandra Paul staff reporter Justice officials Hope a new Law will help Cut the Cost of jailing offenders who cant pay their the philosophical Issue has always been that jail should not be a debtors Don assistant Deputy corrections said on any Given about 80 inmates of provincial correctional facilities Are there for defaulting on fines for convictions ranging from shoplifting and traffic offences to drunk Demers but Bill proclaimed prohibits jail sentences and closes the Fin option route to people fined for traffic violations and City inside Story Fin option default Means b3 parking Demers said that the Bill a series of amendments to provincial for alternative penalties to recoup unpaid such As impounding cars and adding surcharges to annual Drivers licence and registration if you dont pay off your we wont renew your Demers the number of inmates in for defaulting is predicted to drop from a daily average of 80 to Between 30 and said Ron coordinator of information systems for the Justice one in three inmates i was jailed last year because fines we rent statistics Canada reported in 28 per cent of inmates defaulted on according to the but provincial Justice officials dispute those arguing a More accurate figure is about nine per the provinces Fin option program is being credited with reducing the percentage in the past 10 in prior to the program that allows people to work off fines with Community 20 per cent of provincial inmates could not afford to pay off their Demers the offered to All people facing provincial fines they cannot has a total of registrants a Demers eighty per cent of Fin option registrants pay off their he Community advocates praised the amendments As a step in the right but they also took Issue with using jails to penalize the we have debtors these Arent medieval said Bernie a social worker and former police Graham executive director of the John Howard said defaulters serve an average of 30 Days for fines that Range up to by it costs a Day to keep an inmate in a provincial he f vow As the temperature windchill conspire to f just about and optimistic Davis says he can live with the cold As Long As Hes dressed for spoken like a True Farmers grow big profits canola boosts Prairie Economy by Bill Redekop staff reporter last years sea of yellow canola is turning into pocket Fuls of Green for Prairie farm ers As canola futures prices smashed the watershed tonne Mark within the first minute of opening Trade at the Winnipeg commodity canola prices shot up the daily breaking the Mark for just the sixth time in the 25year history of the effects of the canola rally Are being Felt across the with merchants reporting that Farmers Are starting to spend Money for for the first time in a orders for farm machinery Are backed up in some tractor sales on the Prairies were up 30 per cent in 1993 and Combine sales up 20 per thanks largely to late according to the Ca Nadian farm and Industrial equip ment some of our manufacturers have not been Able to keep up with filling orders for our said Institute director Brent As Brandon merchants re ported a 20 per cent increase in re Tail sales Over Brandon is very closely tied to the farm said Bob president of the Brandon chamber of were told by our farm representatives the farm Economy is Proba Bly As Good As its looked in the last 10 Crane the jump in canola value Means the Cash Price paid to Farmers has reached about per up in a Little More than a for an average producer who planted 125 hectares of the Rise Means an addition of to in pure profit since the prices began their rapid or about More in the last a big reason for the surge in the farm Economy is that Farmers guessed right last Prairie Farmers seeded a record Mil lion hectares of then reaped an unheard of a million tonnes More than the previous Manitoba Farmers planted hectares of placing it third on the list of the provinces most popular behind Only wheat and tame talk is that Prairie Farmers could seed up to million hectares of canola next shortly after Prairie Farmers sowed record amounts of flooding in the american Midwest devastated canola chief rival yesterdays canola rally was based on new reports about the dam age to american soybeans just billion bushels of soybeans were harvested last versus billion bushels in How High could canola Market prices go the feeling is now that its Bro Ken a Well probably see by said Don an Independent Market of quote of the Day this is a deadly game there Harry Lazarenko is uneasy about some risky assumptions in the cites proposed 1994 details on Page b1 the weather today sunny and High Low tonight windchill tomorrow sunny and High Sun rises sets Moon rises sets details on paged2 inside Ann in sports to ;