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DEADLY CRASH:
Emergency crews were on Canada Way between Burris Street and Sperling Avenue Thursday morning after a single-vehicle crash claimed the lives of a male driver and female passenger. A black Subaru sedan appears to have been travelling west on Canada Way at a high rate of speed, according to fire department officials, before the driver lost control, crossed onto the south side of the road and slammed into the pole sideways. The car’s occupants were unresponsive by the time firefighters got to them.
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Crown asks for jail time for Fingarsen Former Burnaby school bookkeeper was found guilty of stealing nearly $99,000 starting in 2008 By Cornelia Naylor
cnaylor@burnabynow.com
A former Burnaby school bookkeeper found guilty of stealing a total of nearly $99,000 from two former
employers should spend time in jail, according to the prosecutor in the case. Jodi Fingarsen, who worked as a bookkeeper at Alpha Secondary from 2007 to 2010, was first
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charged with two counts of fraud over $5,000 in February 2013 in relation to her employment at Alpha and her time at the Altus Group in Vancouver between July 2011 and October 2011.
After numerous delays, she was finally found guilty by B.C. Provincial Court Judge Joseph Galati in December and was back in court for a sentencing hearing Tuesday.
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Her defence lawyer, John Banks called for a conditional or intermittent sentence but didn’t specify the duration. He argued his client did not present a danger to the
community in the future. “She’s a very low risk, and you could take a chance, if I can put it that way,” Banks told the judge. The defence lawyer also Continued on page 5
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