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Suspect facing 24 theftrelated charges
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Twenty-four charges have been laid against a Langley man at the conclusion of two investigations of break-ins at two City apartment parking garages. Police were called twice on Sept. 23 for similar complaints to apartment complexes in the 20800 and 20900 blocks of 56 Avenue. In both instances multiple vehicles had been broken into and items stolen. An officer from Langley’s Street Enforcement unit was able to identify a possible suspect from the surveillance photographs taken in the two garages. Police allege Patrick Wayne Eliason, is responsible for the break-ins and thefts and he is now behind bars facing numerous charges, including failing to comply with probation orders. “These are the types of crimes that frustrate and anger most residents of our community and they are by far the most common,” said Langley RCMP Insp. Murray Power. “It takes a great deal of policing resources to capture these types of criminals and Langley detachment is regularly making that investment,” said Power, the new officer in charge. “Unfortunately this is but one suspect and we require continued support and vigilance of everyone to stay on top of their activities.” Eliason has been remanded in custody and is to appear in Surrey Provincial Court on Dec. 16.
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David Gilroy (left) and Don DeVoretz, who live next to the East Langley water pipeline, say the Township should have made an effort to save more trees.
Water line behind schedule ‘CHALLENGES, SITE CONDITIONS’ CITED OVER ALDERGROVE PROJECT
DAN FERGUSON Times Reporter
Work on the $33.5 million East Langley water line has fallen behind schedule. Township engineering and community development manager Ramin Seifi said Monday that “challenges and site conditions encountered in the field” will delay the scheduled completion by a “few weeks … from late 2014 to early 2015.” One of those challenges was running the line underneath the Salmon River near 56 Avenue
and 240 Street, when crews encountered large boulders deep in the ground. Work was held up for about seven days because the contractor digging the line had to switch drilling methods to punch through the rock, driving a pilot pipe horizontally through the ground rather than using an auger to drill it out. Because the new method is less precise, the pipe ended up three feet lower than it was supposed to when it emerged on the other side of the fish-bearing stream.
That will require an adjustment to the pipe alignment, but it is not expected to mean more delays. On Tuesday, when a Times reporter visited the site with a group that included three local residents and a member of the Township engineering staff, trees in the densely-forested valley had been cleared along the pipe route on both sides of the waterway (Two candidates for Township council, Clint Lee and Kevin Mitchell, also attended). The cleared-out path runs be-
side the properties of residents Don DeVoretz and David Gilroy, who said the Township should have considered using less disruptive methods that would have preserved the trees. DeVoretz called the clear-cutting “horrific.” Gilroy said while the Township has told him saving the trees would have cost considerably more than clear-cutting, replanting the area won’t be cheap, either.
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