Our local high school students are sponsoring their annual car wash on Saturday May 1st from 900 am to 300 pm at the Esso Service station located at Sixth Street at Eight Avenue.

The graduating students will be out in force along with our school liaison police officer washing any and all vehicles with all donations going towards sponsoring the New Westminster High School Dry Graduation celebration.

Everyone is welcome to come out and show your support for our students to have a fun and safe high school graduation.

On April Sixteenth at 0015 Hours, a Twenty-year old female had exited a train at the Twenty-Second Street Sky Train station when she was approached by a young female near the bus loop.

The female suspect engaged the victim in a brief conversation before demanding the victim hand over her purse and cell phone. The victim refused, the suspect then grabbed the victims cell phone. Suddenly, another young female came running up behind the victim and assisted the other suspect in a struggle for the victim’s purse and cell phone.

The two suspects managed to knock the victim to the ground and fled with the victim’s purse and contents. The victim then called out to bystanders to call for police.

At 0025 Hours, patrol officers attended the area. Two covering officers located two females in the Two- Thousand Block of Eight Avenue matching the suspect descriptions. One of the females was carrying the victim’s purse and cell phone. Both females were arrested and detained for the robbery investigation.

Both accused are young offenders and were eventually turned over to their guardians. Police are recommending charges of Robbery against the accused.

The victim is a resident of Burnaby and, both accused are Seventeen-years of age, one a resident of New Westminster, one a resident of Burnaby.

On April 10th, 2010 at approximately 2130 hours, members of the New Westminster Police Service responded to a business in the 800 block of Boyd Street for a report of shots fired. Upon arrival it was quickly determined that unknown suspects had fired a number of rounds into the business where several employees were having a party. There were no injuries suffered by any of the occupants.

The NWPS Major Crime Unit has assumed control of this investigation. There are no suspect or suspect vehicle descriptions available at this time and it is too early in the investigation to determine if the incident was gang or drug related.

Anyone with information about this incident is asked to contact the NWPS Major Crime Unit at 604-525-5411 (Det/Cst. Shari GULLIVER) or Crime Stoppers. Additional Media releases will be sent out if there are any signigicant upates.

On Sunday April Fourth at 1415 hours, Constable Justine Thom was on routine patrol in the Unit Block of East Columbia Street when a blue Ford Ranger caught her attention for failing to signal during a lane change and she also noted that the vehicle did not have a front license plate. Constable Thom drove her marked police vehicle in the suspect vehicles direction however, the driver of the vehicle turned off on a side street in what appeared to be an attempt to avoid Constable Thom.

Curious about the motorist’s action, Constable Thom deduced the vehicles direction and headed towards a side street that the suspect vehicle would eventually drive by. The vehicle did indeed drive by Constable Thom’s location at which time she pulled behind the vehicle and followed it. Constable Thom queried the vehicles rear license plate, originating from Alberta, as she followed the vehicle over the Pattullo bridge.

Constable Thom had radioed in her position and awaited for New Westminster police cover officers before she pulled the suspicious vehicle over to the curb just off of the King George Highway in Surrey. The adult male driver and female passenger were cooperative in providing their identification and the vehicles registration papers.

Upon returning to her patrol vehicle, Constable Thom and her covering partner noticed a safe with a punched out tumbler sitting in the bed of the suspect’s pickup truck. Constable Thom then arrested the two accused for possession of stolen property and commenced their investigation. During a search for weapons Thom discovered a myriad of tools for committing criminal offences. Numerous gloves, balaclava’s, two- way radios, pry bars, saws, sledge hammers, a replica handgun, and pepper spray.

Also located in the pickup truck was property that was later established as being linked to recent break and enters in Surrey and Chilliwack.

Arrested and remanded in custody are; Ian Archibald Thomas MacTavish forty-four years of age and, Erin Edwards (female) thirty-five years of age both are residents of Burnaby. Police are recommending criminal charges of possession of stolen property and possession of break and enter instruments. Of note, MacTavish is also subject to numerous warrants in the province of Alberta.