FORT COQUITLAM POLICING REPORT

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Re: Traffic Comments

i. The following are the motor-vehicle accident
statistics for the month of June 1974.

FATAL ACCIDENTS
PERSONAL INJURY ACCIDENTS 6
PROPERTY DAMAGE ACCIDENTS 55 TORAL 61

PERSONS KILLED
PERSONS INJURED
CYCLISTS INJURED
PEDESTRIANS INJURED

2. The following are the traffic violation
statistics for the month of June 1974.

CRIMINAL CODE (Traffic) b) :
PARKING VIOLATIONS 16

GENERAL COMMENTS ON LOCAL CRIMINAL AND DRUG ACTIVITIES

During the month of June, 1974, a total of twenty-five persons
were charged with offences under the Narcotic Control and Food & Drug
Acts. There. were no charges involving Heroin, supporting last month‘s
information that Heroin was not readily available in the Coquitlam or
Port Coquitlam areas.

One drug case of interest was the shipment of thirteen dresses
from India to two different addresses in the Coquitlam area. These
dresses, in three separate parcels, were found to each contain approxi-
mately fifty buttons, with each button containing approximately one gram
of Hashish. The drugs were detected when the parcels were checked by
Customs officials. One resident of the Coquitlam area has subsequently
been charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking in Hashish.

Major crine during the month of June:

(a) Armed robbery of the Pay N Save Gas Station, 810 Brunette Street,
Coquitlam, on the 25th JUNE. The robbery was committed by a lone
gunman, with a second person waiting in a car outside. No arrests
have been made to date.

There was one offence of an indecent, assault on a young teenage
girl, which occurred near the Cemo Lake School. An adult male
is presently before the courts for this offence.

An adult male, presently confined in the Lower Mainland

Regional Correctional Centre, has admitted being responsible

for numerous breaking and enterings of both homes and businesses
in the Coquitl+m and Port Coquitlam area. Though it is our
opinion that this person is exaggerating, he has indicated his
responsibility to nearly 600 offences during 1972 ond 1973. This
person has also admitted being responsible for numerous similar
offences in other parts of the Lower Mainland area. None of the
proceeds from the offences we have been able to confirm were
recovered as same were used to support this person's drug habit.
This matter is still being investigated.

Insp.

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i/f Coquitlam Detachment

(W.S.P.) Sgt.
i/e G.1.8.