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Police take no chances with fake guns RENÉE ANDOR CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
Three youths are lucky to be uninjured after a high risk take down by Campbell River RCMP revealed the weapons the were carrying were fake. Police received a complaint of a male, dressed in all black clothing, walking down Spit Rd. towards the Island Highway carrying a machine gun at 1:57 a.m. on Aug. 28. Members on shift responded and located three youths matching the description, who were taken into custody. In this instance the youths put the weapons down in the grass just prior to police arrival, and there were no injuries. But police had their guns drawn, and there was “potential for lethal oversight,” according to Sgt. Craig Massey of the Campbell River RCMP. “Police believe the guns are real until they are proven otherwise,” wrote Cpl. Poppy Hallam in a news release. A total of four imitation firearms were located and seized. Three were handguns and one was an assault rifle; all were Airsoft guns. One of the handguns had been clear originally, but was blacked out, including the orange muzzle, and the assault rifle also Continued on A4
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Bike jam Grind Skate & BMX’s second annual Wanna Giver bike jam entertained crowds at the Sportsplex skatepark last Sunday. Beginner, Intermediate, Expert and Pro classes all competed for $3,000 in cash prizes.
RCMP dive team searches for body RENÉE ANDOR CAMPBELL RIVER MIRROR
A search for a missing man on the weekend ended in tragedy. Forty-six-year-old Peter Bowers drowned in Carrington Bay on Quadra Island sometime Fri. night. An annual party takes place at Carrington Bay; this year about
500 people were in attendance, including Bowers who was staying on a friend’s sailboat moored out in the bay, according to Const. Martin Neveu of the Quadra Island RCMP. After attending the party he went back to the boat with a friend. That friend went to sleep at about 10:30 p.m. on Fri. night, which was when Bowers was last seen.
Another friend came back to the boat at about midnight, but assumed Bowers had gone back to the party on the beach when he didn’t see him, so he didn’t think anything of him not being on the boat. When his friends awoke in the morning just before 10 a.m. and couldn’t find Bowers they called the RCMP.
RCMP arrived on scene at about 10:30 a.m., and a search was initiated with the help of the Canadian Coast Guard and the West Coast Marine Service, with the RCMP dive team coming later in the day. Neveu said that although RCMP and searchers keep open minds about the possible whereabouts Continued on A4
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