Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 13, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba A4 Maureen Houston 6977292 email Winnipeg free press local August 1995 Mike Ward whole Story alters portrait More often than people who Call me to complain about bureaucratic runaround dont Tell me the whole like the other when a fellow called to say the addictions foundation of Manitoba was responsible for him losing his new the 30yearolds driving licence was suspended for six months in july 1993 for impaired hed been stopped by the ramp after a Call from a concerned in pleased to hear More people should do the employed by a computer company and not needing a car to get to he didst renew his licence after the six month suspension earlier this year he was Laid off by the not being Able to find work in the same he settled for a sales Job with a car Dealership on Regent i was hired on the but the Boss told me i had to get my licence right he called the motor vehicle Branch and was told to get in touch with the addictions foundation of the person at motor vehicles said there be a problem because i was no longer they said id sit Down with an afm counsellor and it would be simply a Case of rubber stamping my Drivers renewal he said he paid the afm a processing fee and was told the earliest appointment he could get was i told my but he said he wait until then so hed have to let me leaving aside the fact the fellow should have applied to renew his licence Long before i had to agree with him that waiting six weeks to see a counsellor was indeed a Long Given his Job was on the i said id Call the afm executive director Herb Thompson was surprised to hear he get to see a counsellor before we do have a Toto three week he and i make no apology for that because we Are dealing with applications a he checked into this particular Fellows appointment Date and got Back to say he had been Able to Advance it to 17 because of a if he haunt got so mad and walked out in a Huff when we fit him in until wed have put his name on our cancellation we told him about it but he said he want Thompson also said he doubts very much that motor vehicles told the fellow that seeing an afm counsellor would be no More than rubber stamping his licence renewal that just not Doest work that he noting that in 1986 the provincial government passed legislation requiring suspended impaired Drivers to attend the afm for counselling sessions and counsellors have to be 100 per cent satisfied that applicants no longer pose a risk on the Road before recommending their licences be that not what i Call rubber stamping an Thompson said if a suspended Driver brings in a letter from a potential employer saying a licence is needed for work then the application could be processed right but that Doest mean the suspended Driver automatically gets a he he or she still has to satisfy a counsellor they dont have an that How it should victim of an injustice that bureaucracy wont remedy or email Mike Ward on the internet at ten most wanted Allen Mckegan wanted by police after his former common Law wife was beaten last Allan Cook allegedly fractured the Skull of a Man who was arguing with his John Peeper Doe caught on film while allegedly trying to break into a downtown Iron Gamblin wanted after a woman jaw was broken at a House party in Stephen Haynes failed to appear in court in june to face a rape Warren Keeler charged with Selling illegal drugs to an undercover police Marlou Nelson facing assault charge after a woman was attacked at a House Joseph Sanderson wanted for assaulting his estranged Girlfriend in a downtown Ivan Taylor being sought by police after a pregnant woman was severely Marty Williams wanted by police for purse snatching and peekaboo on Peeper reporter it was the Case of the Peeper who got it All a Young Street Man Early the morning of june i want sure what it was at first but something woke me the Man asking his name not be so the Man got up and had a look around the living and then the and then out the Kitchen and he was just standing there looking at the Man he was the Man police have come to Call John Peeper and he had already Cut out the screen of the mans Kitchen window in what police say was a breaking the Young Street Man decided to turn the tables from being a Peewee to a i had a camera on the window Sill and i grabbed it and just started taking he squeezed off two frames of the startled Peeper before he ran off into the police say anyone with any information on the identity of the Peeper is urged to Call Winnipeg crime stoppers at callers dont have to reveal their identities and crime stoppers will pay Cash for information leading to the arrest of the Peeper or the other fugitives featured Allen Ross wanted by City police in an attack on his former common Law on May police say a to the woman Home and let himself he grabbed the woman and pushed her on the where he kneed her in the stomach and punched her in the the woman suffered internal bleeding and facial her attacker had fled by the time police police charged Mckegan with assault causing bodily break and enter with intent and breaching a no molestation while charges have been police have been unable to locate Mckegan to arrest he is with Brown hair and Brown Allan Lawrence is wanted by police for allegedly fracturing the Skull of a Man arguing with his suspected breaking artist caught on candid earner a Ohgimi Manitoba 10 most wanted police say Cook and his Mother were at a party on Marion Street on when the woman got into an argument with a police say the woman son picked up a Barbell and struck the victim in the fracturing his police were called and Cook was arrested at the scene and charged with aggravated he was released on but he missed his court Date on May Cook is with Brown hair and he Tattoo of dad on his left wrist and babe on his left Iron Gregory is wanted by City police for allegedly breaking a woman jaw at a party last on May police say the woman was at a party and got into an argument with a they and the Man hit the woman in the knocking her unconscious and breaking her police have charged Gamblin with assault causing bodily but officers have been unable to locate Gamblin is with Black hair and Brown he has tattoos of Indian on his a Unicorn on his right wrist and Bug on his left Stephen Oliver is wanted by City police in the rape of a 25yearold on police say a Man picked up a woman in the area of Logan Avenue and Martha Street and they drove to a Portage Avenue hotel where they rented a once police say the Man consumed a Hal dozen drinks and snorted what the woman believed to be the Man then attacked the woman and forced her to have Intercourse with him Over several Haynes was arrested the following March and charged with sexual assault causing bodily he was released on bail but failed to appear at a june 1993 court police have been unable to locate Haynes is with Black he has been known to use the alias Stephen Warren Robert is wanted on drug trafficking on police say an undercover officer bought a Gram of hashish from a Man outside a Selkirk Avenue hotel and made arrangements for a larger the next the officer returned and bought seven Grams of hashish from the same two Days the same officer met with the Man again and made arrangements to buy a Pound of the Man was arrested after the officer gave him for the a search of his House turned up another Worth of illegal Keeler was charged with trafficking and Possession for the purpose of trafficking but he skipped Keeler is 170 with Brown hair and Brown Marlou is wanted by City police for punching out a woman during an argument Over a Twoy Earold on april police say two women and a boy were at a party when an argument broke out Over the the fight and one woman attacked the Nelson was arrested and charged with assault causing bodily but she disappeared while on Nelson is with Brown hair and Brown Joseph Oliver is wanted for beating his estranged Girlfriend last on july police say the 26yearold woman was at a fort Street lounge when she was confronted by her former police say the Man accused the woman of calling the police on him in connection with a previous incident and then punched her in the knocking her from her police say the Man kicked her and smashed a Beer bottle on her Sanderson has been charged with assault with a weapon and uttering he is also charged with breaching a recognizance by allegedly violating a previous court order to leave the woman but police have been unable to locate him since the charge was Sanderson is with Black hair and Brown Ivan Victor is wanted by police for an incident last fall in which a pregnant woman was mercilessly police say the woman had broken off a 13year relationship with her common Law husband but the Man tracked her Down at a Redwood Avenue police say there was an and the Man threw a chair at the knocking her while she was on the the Man kicked her in the struck her Over the head with a Beer bottle and threatened to kill police say the attack ended after four Young children in the House distracted the Man Long enough for the woman to flee and Flag Down a Motorist for Taylor has been charged with assault with a weapon and uttering threats to kill but officers have been unable to locate Taylor is with Black hair and Brown Marty Kenneth is wanted by City police in a purse snatching and Domestic assault that occurred july about police say a 45yearold woman was waiting for a bus on main Street when a Man pushed her Down from behind and grabbed her about police say the suspects Girlfriend returned Home and the Man attacked kicking and slapping her in the police have charged Williams with assault causing bodily robbery and uttering threats but have been unable to locate Williams is with Black hair and Brown sikh has no crime record source staff Winnipeg sikh charged with attempting to smuggle one of the worlds most wanted terrorists into Winnipeg has no criminal record in Accord ing to a source in new Shailesh a new Delhi based correspondent for the times of contacted police there yesterday and was told Pinder Singh Brar had no remains in custody after he was arrested 3 at the Paul International Airport along with Daya Singh the reputed Leader of in Dias Khal Stan liberation who has lived in Canada for a couple of is charged with at tempting to smuggle into while he has no history of criminal activity in Shekhar said Brar is Likely one of Many sikhs in Canada who sympathize with the Khali Stani movement for an Independent sikh state in the Punjab in a Ruthern accused terrorist smuggler still in custody in Brief water bombers sent three water bombers from Mani Toba have been called in to help fight fires in Northwestern one Blaze 40 Kilometres East of Atikokan has forced the evacuation of residents living near the Vil Lage of Sapa the other Hotshot in Northwestern Ontario is about 40 Kilometres South East of residents living in that area have been told to be pre pared to leave As a 550hectare fire has been burning nearby for the last couple of teen assaulted a 15yearold girl was treated and released from Good condition after she was forced into a car and sexually assaulted Friday the girl was walking at Alfred Avenue and Aikins Street at about 11 when a station Wagon with two males inside one of the men forced her into the car and she was taken to Morier Park where she was sexually As the girl managed to escape to a nearby from which she called one suspect is described As about 40 years with Blond the other is White and in his 30s with Black Collar length hair and Black the station Wagon is de scribed As Brown or red with rust Man stabbed a 38yearold Winnipeg Man is re covering in Hospital after he was stabbed Early yesterday morning a passerby found the Man at a bus Stop at Church Avenue and main Street at about he had been stabbed in the Chest and had the Man was taken to health sciences Centre where he was oper ated on and is listed in stable Condi police have not released the mans two vehicle crash a two vehicle collision Early yesterday has left one Man in serious condition in Robert was driving eastbound on Marion Street at about 4 when his car collided with a pickup heading southbound on Des neurons Smith was removed from his vehicle with the jaws of life and taken to Boniface general Hospital where he is in serious condition with Back the 32yearold Driver of the pickup was not to catch a thief a pair of Winnipeg Gas station attendants both of whom recently were held up at the Kibosh on a would be lottery ticket thief Early Terry Scott and Ken both were finishing their Over night shift at the Shell at Portage Avenue and Maryland Street when a Man in his late 20s came into the shop before 6 reached Over the counter and grabbed fistfuls of lot Tery when who was at the Back of the demanded to know what the Man was the Man slugged him in the Scott grabbed the Man and wrestled him outside but not before bruising his Back when the pair crashed into a refrigerator and a rack of who had been in the Back then helped subdue the Man until police ;