THE RCMP not only have one of their own, bul he's the wrong man, says a local mechanic who was involved in an employ- ment insurance fraud in- vestigation, Bill “Bushy” Bobyk is at the centre of sugges- tions he was collecting employment: . insurance (El) and working -at-.the same time last year. His’ friend..is Jason MacDonald, a local RCMP constable, who has templing to ‘obstruct: jus- tice. The charge. follows word that Bobyk was tip- ped off that El investiga- tors were on his case last pay him a visit... “I did get a phone. call, but it was from somebody else,” Bobyk said last week, “It wasn’t from Jason, He wouldn't do that.” ee, Bobyk, who denies working while collecting pogey, became involved in an El investigation one night last June when he was helping out, for no money, the owners of Greig Ave. Auto Repair. While working on an- other vehicle, MacDonald and an auxiliary officer, Vinee Heslenfeld,. both of whom were on duty, stap- ped in so MacDonald’s Ford Explorer: could be checked over, Heslenfeld’s full time job is that of an EI invest- igator and he began to take an interest in Bobyk. And it was when Bobyk was tipped off that Heslen- feld wanted to visit Bobyk at his own shop to review records, that the investiga- tion began against Mac- Donald. Bobyk said the person on the other end told him, ‘“Vince was on his way over.” | “Is no surprise that . somebody would phone. - He’s not very well liked,” - said Bobyk of Heslenfeld. Bobyk said he stayed at his shop for a while after A TERRACE youth is fa- cing charges of aggravated ~ assault after a stabbing in- * cident on the afternoon of Aug. 13 at Lazelle and Sparks. The 16-year-old female, who cannot be identified ‘under the Young Offen- - der’s Act, was involved in - a “relationship- dispute” ‘ with another woman, ac- - cording to RCMP Staff Sgt. Tom Forster. Forster says a 21-year- old woman was stabbed in Correction IN THE Aug. 16 article “Gitanyow clear way for : coho,” biologist Mark Cle- * veland is reported as say- - ing that logging contribu- ted to Kitwanga River blockages. ' In fact, the comment he ' made was referring to what . Gitanyow elders had said. see oF pow + ane now been charged with at- ° - June and were going to. A2 - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, August 23, 2000 Mechanic defends police officer friend he received the call, but then went oul, leaving a “closed” sign on his door, Heslenfeld would not comment on the specifics of the case, but did ack- nowledge an ‘investigation had started. “But it was concluded without ‘sufficient proof to . do anything at the end- of -the day,” -he.said..- ; ‘Heslenfeld did say he asked -that an RCMP. offi- cer accompany him-on a visit to look at records. | unusual when there’s a ’ gupegestion there could be a hostile. reception; he added, MacDonald made: his first appearance in Terrace provincial court Aug. 11 and is due back Sept. 8. “MacDonald, a_ three- year veteran of the detach- ment, and ‘another officer, who wasn’t criminally charged, have been sus- pended for some months now. Both are going through an internal invest- igation and both are on full pay. “Tt’s very rare lo be sus- pended without pay,” said Staff Sgt. Tom Forster of the local detachment. “You have to clearly show serious corruption.” Following a nine-month investigation led by Staff- Sgt. Greg Funk of Kitimat, who oversees the region’s detachments, enough evi- dence was established to lay criminal charges against MacDonald, but not the other officer in- volved. “Inspector Wheler, the officer in charge of the Terrace detachment wan- ted an independent invest- igation,” said Funk, Funk wouldn’t comment on how this case compares with others he’s looked into, but said “any time there’s an officer in any detachment being invest- igated criminally, it’s very .. Serious.” MacDonald and the other officer face penallics ranging from fines to loss of benefits to dismissal Youth charged the back with a knife and taken to Mills Memorial Hospital with a non-life threatening: wound. She was later released. RCMP say residents of the house were holding a large party with alcohol involved prior to the stab- bing. “There were several people not in the same fa- mily living in the resi- dence,” Forster said. The youth made her first youth court appear- ance Aug. 15. You Can Make a Difference HUNTINGTON DISEASE HUNTINGTON SOCIETY OF CANADA $-000.998-7208 ‘sion to the RCMP external review committee in Otta- Such a request. is” not. ‘ing upon the results. of any from the RCMP if the in- ternal investigation finds any wrongdoing. Forster says that it will be another six months be- fore any internal discipli- nary action is known. 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