Cdn-Firearms Digest Sunday, November 23 2008 Volume 12 : Number 653 In this issue: "The RCMP will not come down here at night." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, November 23, 2008 10:34 am From: "Breitkreuz, Garry - Assistant 2" Subject: "The RCMP will not come down here at night." PUBLICATION: Times Colonist (Victoria) DATE: 2008.11.19 EDITION: Final SECTION: News PAGE: A8 ILLUSTRATION: Colour Photo: Glenn Baglo, Canwest News Service / Brad Juckes, owner of Blackwell Distributors in Whalley, says his Surrey neighbourhood has become a "war zone." The area is so dangerous the RCMP will not enter it at night, he said. ; DATELINE: SURREY BYLINE: John Colebourn SOURCE: Canwest News Service WORD COUNT: 212 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Robber guns down two gas jockeys; Owners of businesses in crime-ridden Surrey neighbourhood say they're fed up - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SURREY -- An elderly Surrey man was in critical condition last night after he and a co-worker at a gas station were shot in a neighbourhood that one merchant calls the war zone. The two gas jockeys -- one aged 70 and the other 19 -- at a Tempo gas station at 108th Avenue and Scott Road were shot by a man in his 20s at about 7 p.m. Monday. The 19-year-old clerk, who was shot in the stomach, is recovering in hospital, said Surrey RCMP Sgt. Roger Morrow. Police believe the same gunman committed five robberies the day before. Shots were fired during two of the robberies and in a third, the robber pointed his gun at a woman's head while he grabbed her purse. Monday night's attempted robbery and shootings were no surprise to Brad Juckes, who owns Blackwell Distributors, just two doors away on Scott Road. "It has become a war zone down here," he said as police looked for clues in the taped-off gas station. Juckes said he has break-ins weekly and he expects to lose $100,000 this year from crime. "The RCMP will not come down here at night. I'm worried about my ability to run my business because of the RCMP's inability to control things down here." He said the area is overrun with drug addicts, many of whom come into the neighbourhood on SkyTrain, just a few blocks away. Raj Kang who owns Pacific Western Roofing next door to the Tempo gas station, said he is a victim of property crime almost every day. "It is a very bad area," he said. http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/story.html?id=7f9ad900-d574-4c5d-994d-463ba090916d ------------------------------ End of Cdn-Firearms Digest V12 #653 *********************************** Submissions: mailto:cdn-firearms-digest@scorpion.bogend.ca Mailing List Commands: mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca Moderator's e-mail address: mailto:drg.jordan@sasktel.net List owner: mailto:owner-cdn-firearms@scorpion.bogend.ca FAQ list: http://www.canfirearms/Skeeter/Faq/cfd-faq1.html Web Site: http://www.canfirearms.ca CFDigest Archives: http://www.canfirearms.ca/archives To unsubscribe from _all_ the lists, put the next four lines in a message and mailto:majordomo@scorpion.bogend.ca unsubscribe cdn-firearms-digest unsubscribe cdn-firearms-chat unsubscribe cdn-firearms end (To subscribe, use "subscribe" instead of "unsubscribe".)