Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 10, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Log Dimter Tarim Ivi Emit Hunters absent fewer Hunters Are shooting geese at Oak Hammock Marsh a7 the weather increasing Cloud late in the High Low details on Page c11 this week is fire prevention week senior goes out of his Way to lend a six vying for Charles Council Oak Bank family hooked on Fibre Rocklyn in the Peg Bon Jovi thrills fans in Arena c1 Dave barrys Knuckles Are White As son learns to Mckenna Brothers Are Back with new War City poets new Book inspired by visit to bombers mow it Blue Hurt playoff losing 3120 to Toronto 01 jets Down mighty ducks 43 at Marino goes under baseball championship series previewed it diversions c3 in sports to Winnipeg free press 5o plus taxes higher in outlying areas october special report booze pipeline broken seven arrested in huge anti smuggling operation investigative reporter Snowflake Manitoba ramp broke a mul Dimillio Dollar smuggling operation arresting seven people and seizing hundreds of thousands of dollars Worth of liquor and vehicles during a series of ramp say the arrests smashed an elaborate smuggling network operating in the Snowflake area of sout Central and Cli maxed the largest police investigation of its kind in the More than 40 ramp and Canada customs officers were involved in the which took place at Dawn As most residents of this farming town and sur rounding area were four of the people arrested were from Snowflake and the sur rounding two others were from nearby la Riviere and a seventh was from about 60 Kilometres Northwest of All seven face charges of sell ing smuggled liquor and tobacco to a paid informant the mounties hired to infiltrate the smuggling the investigation was a four month joint operation by Canada customs and officers in the ramps customs and excise Sec investigators said the smug gling network they uncovered was huge and had been operating for at least a costing the Federal and provincial govern ment millions of dollars in lost tax officers said the Snowflake Arm of the network alone is believed to have been responsible for smuggling More than cases of liquor into the province from the United states in the past 10 we have needed half the healthcare cuts weve gotten if it we rent for these one officer in ramp seized More than one litre bottles of smuggled hard liquor and dozens More cases of smuggled tobacco during the Covert investigators said much of the liquor smuggled Over the years is believed to have ended up in win they suspect some of it was sold to restaurants and hotels but believe most was sold by the Case to individuals for their per Sonal investigators said the smugglers were buying cases of 12 one litre bottles of hard liquor for about a Case in the United then Selling in Manitoba for a about half the Cost of buying it from a licensed continued please see girl crime turns grisly charges violence on Rise Winnipeg a suspect in smuggling network is taken into pm Linda Silkowski Winnipeg free press an officer checks cases of liquor stored in Back of ramp customs and excise officer prepares to move by Doug Narne police reporter spice and All things Nice is not what some Little girls Are made of these in women Young women in particular Are committing an increasing number of violent since the number of charges Laid against females under the age of 18 in Winnipeg has Rock eted up 120 per earlier this a Trio of girls barged into a party and held a gun to the head of a girl they accused of being a police others at the party said the girls humiliated their victim while threatening to blow her head the Trio held the entire party hostage before escaping into the this a 14yearold girl was dragged from Portage place in Broad Daylight by a gang of six girls and taken to a landside Resi Dence where she endured an hour Long the girl was kicked and had her hair pulled out in she was hospitalized after the which came after she reportedly spoke with a boy at school the other girls didst want her to speak As the lines Between the sexes become women Are pick ing up some of the negative aspects of Equality along with the positive said University of Manitoba sociologist Eric the rates of crime among women Are rising much faster than they Are among in 314 girls were charged with crimes against including sex assaults and in were the number of women of All Ages charged with violent crimes has been steadily increasing since but the number of adult women charged 365 in 1990 appears to have levelled off at around 800 in for Young the rate continues to shoot continued please see violence saboteurs derail Amtrak Over 100 injured by Tony Louis Sahagun and Jesse Katz los Angeles times one per son was killed and More than 100 including several were injured yesterday As the Amtrak Sunset limited derailed at a Bridge Over a dry Wash in the Arizona desert saboteurs did research b1 on tracks that authorities said were apparently by a Domestic group calling itself the sons of the rolling through the Early morning like a Silver was carrying 248 passengers and 20 Crew members from Miami to los it hit the broken tracks about 44 Kilometres East of this Small town shortly after 1 local passengers children one woman shouted the names of her babies Over and Over in the one Crew Mitchell a sleeping car Atten Dant based in los was thrown against the Wall of his dormitory compartment and Amtrak counted More than 100 five the injured included a woman on her honeymoon and a three month old Joyce of British was on her Way to Dis Neyland with her 24yearold there was a loud Roar and everything was it was beginning to tilt and then every thing just Shook and said who want authorities disclosed that the saboteurs connected two 12metre sections of rail with a red electrical Cord to keep circuitry intact and train signals they unbolted and removed a 91centimetre steel bar that joins the rail sections and pulled out 29 spikes to loosen the tracks from their wooden just around a curve in front of a wooden trestle nine metres above the continued please see caught motors people matter More Ihu Huum i Hight 786 3811 ;