Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - May 23, 1997, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free May a5 officers Zero in on smugglers learning to look beyond ticket by Doug police reporter the new War on smuggling weapons and contraband will be fought on North Ameri Cas police experts no matter How illegal material gets into Canada or the United it always ends up on wheels somewhere along the and that the Best place for police to find an officer making a traffic Stop can make a seizure of or pounds of marijuana if he knows what to look said Marty Duncan of the Florida state Highway it would take a Long investigation to track those same drugs Down once they get out on the Duncan is one of a team of International instructors lecturing to 27 police officers in Winnipeg this week on the operation the program is designed to help train police officers to look beyond the ticket to see if someone Treyve pulled Over for a minor traffic infraction is carrying Ken Gigliotti Winnipeg free press Bob Thomasson of the Federal Highway administration uck Driver Peter Letterman striped shirt questions truck Duncan said once the officers learn what to look particularly when it comes to searching commercial Lehi they have been remarkably successful in searching out everything from weapons to alcohol and operation pipeline targets private vehicles while operation Convoy tar gets commercial ramp Rob the National operation coordinator in said the program has been used in this country for about two years with impressive including the seizure of More than million in Eastern Manitoba last year after a routine traffic he said seizures of All types of con Traband Are and there is a High demand for the we Are one of the hottest training courses in the ramp right suiters the smuggling situation in Canada is not As serious As it is in the United where billions of dollars Worth of drugs Are seized but Canada has become a tempting route for smug when we have 90 per cent of our population living within 200 Miles of the their problems become our suiters yesterday students Learned How to safely search a one instructor said approaching a Large truck is dangerous in telling a Story about two american Highway patrol officers who were crushed when a truck Driver carrying Contra band ran Over their helmet prevented serious injury by Glen Mackenzie staff reporter Tyler Alec used to think a bicycle helmet want some thing you had to bother Wear ing All the now he wears one even when just Riding in his driveway after run Ning into a parked vehicle last a 15yearold student at Silver Heights was Riding Home along Portage Avenue from Assini Boine Park in when he saw a halftone truck parked in front of he failed to swerve wide they Tell me i fell onto the ground and under the says who was unconscious for about 30 seconds after crashing head Alec was wearing his helmet that even he spent the next 10 Days in and had trouble walking for a there was Alec told his Story yesterday at a press conference launching this Wayne free press Tyler Alec crashed head first years monthlong cycling safety Campaign by the cycling health and safety committee of Manitoba and which stands for injuries Manitoba prevention of adolescent and childhood Michael director of the Impact program at the Chil Drens says the injury and death rate among Young Manitoba cyclists is higher than the National average for All the Prairie Moffatt said it could be there is still something of a Frontier spirit that leads people to take certain he said cycling injuries Are More common in Rural Manitoba than the Moffatt says mandatory helmet use would reduce head not ing Australia has experienced a reduction since introducing such a Law in Moffatt said helmets Are required by Law in Ontario and British Colum and Quebec May join suit but in it int even being talked he May is also motorcycle safety awareness Chase ends in Accident a pair of boys aged 12 and 13 led police yesterday morning on a High Speed Chase through the City that ended when the stolen Van they were driving went out of hit a Telephone pole and rolled the Chase ended in the area of Matthews Avenue and Burnell 10 arrests on Low track an anti prostitution sweep of the Low track area this week has resulted in the arrest of five men and five All of the accused allegedly approached undercover police officers and offered to perform sex acts for All of the suspects were charged with communication for the purpose of one Man who was a resident of North appeared before a magistrate after being arrested and had his charge dealt warehouse opens May 24 Iron pottery Pine second location 376 Donald behind Walker theatre saturdays 105 open at 784 Corydon 4527096 of i Andrews shoes european imports 1116 Portage 7752866 buy now and got a from Bagapor kit Purdham a now Tore v7 is Rev tar or Lawnmower and to Colet a Grain lagger kit free patented Tough steel deck 2cycie or 4cycle push or 2year total coverage mrs soon in to see the yellow tinder far the duller 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identified As a High risk offender under the Community notification pro which is designed to warn area Schindel released from prison residents that a potentially dangerous person will be residing in their Biener said Schindel is the youngest person identified since the system was set up two years police also went further in releasing the information than have in the directly contacting Day care and child and family services officials with the information prior to Schindelm Schindel is on probation until on condition he not have Contact with any children and that he attend and satisfactorily Complete a sex offender treatment anyone with concerns about Schin Del is asked to Contact police at 986 6245 during working hours or at 9866033 during nights and moving Sale everything goes drapery sofas fabrics laser Eye surgery laser vision doll new re Halo f suite 235 444 Mary Manitoba r3c 311 9435353 fax 9438558 Freedom from glasses 1997 Chevy Cavalier 17 All priced at v Down lease plus taxes 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