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MARCH 19, 2015 | Volume 28 No. 34
COCAINE DEALER GETS FOUR YEARS IN PRISON
New information halts ex-teacher’s child-porn trial CAM FORTEMS STAFF REPORTER cam@kamloopsthisweek.com
The trial of a retired teacher on a charge of possession of child pornography was adjourned to a later date based on new information given to the defence. The lawyer acting for Jerry Waselenkoff made the request for an adjournment in B.C. Supreme Court. Glen Orris said he has been provided with new disclosure regarding the investigation and needs time to study the material. What was scheduled to be a four-day trial started Monday, March 16, with testimony from a father and son contracting team doing renovations to the unit below Waselenkoff’s Sahali condo. Franz van der Woning said he was doing electrical work in the ceiling when he felt something. He pulled out a number of discs through a hole JERRY WASELENKOFF he’d cut in the ceiling. Van der Woning reported the find to RCMP after he viewed a picture on a computer of a “very young girl.” Several days later, van der Woning testified he could hear a rustling noise in the area where he’d been working, what he thought was someone trying to locate the discs. The Crown alleges Waselenkoff stashed the discs beneath and beside the register vent and connected heating pipe in his floor. Van der Woning testified Waselenkoff appeared concerned that RCMP seized the discs and said he had enough sleeping pills to “make an end of it.” A date for the continuation is expected to be set next month. Waselenkoff retired from his job as a teacher with the Kamloops-Thompson school district in 2006.
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A cocaine wholesaler busted by RCMP with drug paraphernalia and $140,000 in cash stuffed in the wall of his home has been sentenced to four years in jail, despite his extraordinary efforts at rehabilitation. A B.C. Supreme Court justice said yesterday (March 18) that Jean-Claude Auger led a “double life” — a good son to a middle-class family and a well-liked neighbour on his North Kamloops street but, in reality, a wholesaler selling large amounts of cocaine to a local trafficking ring and motivated by little else but greed. “Drugs were bound for the street and he knew this,” Justice Hope Hyslop said. “His motive was greed, with little regard to what this would do to others.” Auger pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic cocaine and possession for the purpose
JEAN-CLAUDE AUGER: Judge said drug dealer led a double life.
of trafficking. When his four-year sentence was read out in court, Auger’s girlfriend broke down in tears. He showed little emotion as he was led to jail by a sheriff. Auger was busted, along with seven other men, in connection to what RCMP called a United Nations ganglinked dial-a-dope operation running in 2012. Defence lawyer Chris Thompson argued for house arrest for Auger based on what he said was a remarkable turnaround in his life. See AUGER, A7
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