Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - April 4, 2005, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday april 4, 2005 a3 six Brandon businesses Burn cause of Blaze remains unknown City a worst loss in recent memory stood. All she could think was Happy by Ian Hitchen Taylor who celebrated her 41st birthday saturday had owned her custom b Randon ? fire investigators Are window coverings and Interior decorate continuing to search for the source ing firm for the last eight years. Of a 4 . Fire that destroyed six i have no idea i Don to know what to businesses yesterday. Do said Taylor who did to have insure the fire razed the fringes hair studio Ance. Precision flooring tailored interiors a the Brandon fire department was masonry business and the lady of the called at 3 50 . Yesterday. Lake shop and Caf. The Caf was the Only Nineteen year old Jason Martens who Brandon restaurant to make the 2004-05 lives across the Street spotted fire trucks where to eat in Canada guide. Then smoke coming from the buildings with 21 years of service Brandon fire windows at about 4 . The building department Cut. Kevin Groff could to flared up about an hour and a half later recall a Blaze that claimed so and by 7 . It began to col Many businesses at one time. The loss is horrendous Groff said As firemen estimate my entire life is lapse. Flames started flying out of the front window and that was de the damage could reach $500,000 or More. Devastated nuts Martens said. The whole building was going he said the cause want known nor did he know where it started. No one was in the ? Kellington floors owner Randy Kellington Martens mom Martha reminisced about shopping for Christmas gifts among lady of fraud artist picked the wrong victim former City police officer played gadfly role interview. But we never gave up by Dan Lett p demanding that they hold Slobogian a feet to the perhaps it took a Winnipeg Ger to Tindle left Winnipeg and its police ser catch a Winnipeg Ger. Vice in the 1950s after suffering close Jim Tindle a former Winnipeg Calls in two different shooting incidents. Police officer played a Central role in he went Back to University and worked pushing British Columbia police and As an Industrial psychologist before prosecutors to track Down and Lay retiring in the Early 1990s. Charges against former Winnipeg like Many retirees Tindle was teacher and insurance sales seduced by Slobogian slab Man Brian Slobogian. We never orate mortgage scheme and last week Slobogian was its Promise of double digit finally sentenced to six years dividends. When it turned gave up in prison for orchestrating out Eron mortgage was demanding the largest mortgage fraud in nothing More than an Delabo . History. His Eron Mort rate ponzi scheme ? that they hold Gage Empire drained $180 where Money from new million from investors in the Slobogian a investors was used to pay mid to late 1990s, Many of Money to the original them retired and on fixed feet to the investors ? Tindle decided incomes. He would to just get angry although ramp Commer fire he was going to get even. Cial crime officers and . It took More than five ? Jim Tindle prosecutors nailed Slobogian years to Complete an invest the authorities seemed to require a ligation and another two to negotiate a healthy dose of motivation from the plea bargain that resulted in Slobogian a investors and their unofficial Leader prison sentence. Throughout All stages Tindle. Tindle was a constant presence. Tindle said police and prosecutors Tindle turned his lower Mainland con grew tired of his constant correspond Dominium into a the nerve Centre of the Dence Telephone Calls and demands for investors committee. His garage meetings. But in the end Tindle said he served As the file room stuffed with knows All the hard work paid off. Dozens of boxes containing thousands we made ourselves pretty unpopular of pages of documentation from the with the Crown Tindle said in a recent police and . Securities commission building when the fire began and a couple of firefighters who slipped on ice were the Only reported injuries. Frustration welled up in Randy Kelling tons voice As he looked yesterday upon the charred and smouldering remains of his flooring company. My entire life is devastated said the Kellington floors owner pointing to the scorched pile of Brick Wood and twisted Metal. I put my heart and soul into this floor covering business and there you see it right there. Every piece of paper every Job i was working on everything has been Kellington is also landlord of the 1608 Park ave. Building where the fire destroyed the businesses that employed 30 to 40 people. We re All devastated right now Kellington said. They All called it their Home tailored interiors owner Shelley Tay Lor arrived on the scene at 8 30 . To find smoking rubble where her business once the lakes antique furniture ornaments and Beauty products. In 2000, the Canadian gift and table Ware association gave the business an award for its gift Ware. Its always been Busy its a place to look at Martha said. At christmastime they always had lights owner Kim Shaw could to be reached and a family member of co owner Heather Garden said she want ready to comment. Meanwhile one of the owners of the building has vowed to Supply another Home for tenants. We re fully insured said Lloyd Lee whose dad erected the original portion of the Structure Back in 1951 to House a farm implement business. It will be Lee who owns the building with his brother Don and leases it to Kellington said additions were made in 1974 and 1985 until the two Storey Complex covered about 10,000 Square feet. ? Brandon Sun they looked at said Tindle. We still Don to know Why the Crown did to stress to the court that these six cases represented Only 11.76 per cent of the entire Eron portfolio. If they did that i a sure he would have got a harsher for now Tindle said he is concentrate investigations of Eron. Week with the sentencing. Ing on cleaning out his garage. To ensure when Slobogian disappeared and the six year sentence was not sur the Public does to forget about Lobo took Refuge in Las vegas to avoid prising in and of itself said Tindle. How Gians transgressions Tindle said he is arrest Tindle helped police track him Ever there Are still questions about Why keeping three or four Bankers boxes full Down with bits and pieces of inform the ramp and Crown decided to prose of documents. Tion gathered in Vancouver. Tindle sat cute Slobogian on Only six of the 64 we re sending everything else to the through hundreds of hours of Estimo investment projects he used to defraud shredder said Tindle. 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