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BOWMANVILLE LIBRARY 1.1.07 163 Church Street Bowmanville, Ont. L1C 1P7 Volume 69, Number 8 $1.00 : GST Included Wednesday February 22, 2006 Servi fig ken fiai, Another stolen handgun recovered Friday's high winds churned up the surf at the Port of Newcastle, causing the waves to beat against the break water. Durham Regional Police are. attempting to get toy guns off the streets. Constable Todd Petzold, of the Durham Regional Police Service, appeared at Claring- ton's General Purpose and Administration : Committee Meeting Monday morning with his arsenal of plastic guns, and -demonstrated to councillors how realistic these toy guns can look. : According to Petzold, the replica guns in his collection ' are of the type that are sold in dollar stores for. $2. While Federal Legislation bans the sale of replica handguns handguns to people under the age of 18, there is no law against possessing them. "Anyone over the" age of 18 can go to a ' dollar store, buy these : give them as a gift," Petzold. "No one under the age. 18 should possess these imitation imitation firearms," Petzold stated. "There is no reason to them on the streets. If one wishes to play with them in their back yards, that's okay," he said. Petzold is appearing at all the Regions', municipalities, asking them to adopt a bylaw regulating the possession of replica and imitation firearms in public to anyone under the age of 18. ' "Children don't realize, if they are walking around at night with a toy gun, as far as the police are concerned, they are : dealing with a gun,"according to Petzold. Under .the criminal code, Petzold says, "police have no authority to remove a toy gun . from a child. A-by-law would allow me to take that gun from a boy. We want the ability to remove-these guns from the streets, not necessarily to lay charges.," Petzold said. • "We are trained to shoot," . stated Petzold. "if someone points a gun at us, we shoot. "We are trying to protect the kids from themselves," A number of recent incidents incidents involving replica or toy guns in Scugog Township, led the council of Scugog to pass a bylaw prohibiting the sale of such guns last month. The bylaw carries a $150-fine for anyone , GUNS see page 3 Constable Todd Petzold, of the North Durham Community Police Office, is trying to get toy guns off the streets in Durham Region. A series of search warrants the narcotics is $ 15,000. on homes in Oshawa, Stephanie O'very, age 27, Scarborough and Newcastle of Edwards Street East in has resulted in the recovery of Newcastle is charged with: one handgun, 1,200 rounds of Possession of Cocaine for the ammunition and the seizure of Purpose, of Trafficking, almost $20,000 in cash and Possession of Marihuana for illegal drugs. the Purpose of Trafficking, The handgun and ammuni- and Production of Crack tion are from the collection of Cocaine for the Purpose of 40 handguns and ammunition Trafficking, stolen from an Oshawa resi- As a result of the warrant dence sometime prior to Feb on Macaulay Street in 3rd, 2006. This is the seventh Oshawa, Werner Geoffery handgun now recovered. Geidlinger, age 42, of that On Friday, February 17th, address was charged with: 2006, members of the Durham Possession of Marihuana, Regional Police Gang En- Possession of Cocaine, forcement Unit executed four Two men were also arrest- simultaneous Criminal Code . ed at a storage unit on Conlins search warrants with the assis- Road in Scarborough.- At this tance of the Provincial location, police recovered a Weapons Enforcement Unit, STAR Model F sëmi-automat- Durham Regional Police and ic .22 calibre handgun and York Regional Police. Tactical approximately 1,200 rounds Support Units. The search of ammunition, warrants were executed as a . Dale Slyfield, age 32, of result of an ongoing investiga- Edward Street East- in tion into'the 1 theft of 40 hand- Newcastle and Maurice Emil, guns and a large quantity of age 26, of Simcoe Street ammunition from an Oshawa ■ North in Oshawa are facing ; gun: collector. seven charges including The warrants were execut- Possession of Weapon Ob- ed on Edward Street East in tained by Crime, Firearm in Newcastle; Macaulay Street in Motor Vehicle, Possession of Oshawa; Anderson Street in Ammunition for the Purpose •Oshawa and on Ponymeadow of Trafficking. Terrace in Scarborough. . - Slyfield is al.so charged • At the. Edward Street East with three drug related crimes address in Newcastle, officers which involve possession of recovered 93.5 grains of marihuana, cocaine and pro- cocaine, 237.6 grams of mari- duction of crack cocaine for huana, 28.3 ' grams of crack the purpose of trafficking, cocaine and $1,500 in cash.. All four were held for a The estimated street value of bail hearing. Council hands out Muncipal grants Clarington councillors dis- dian Mental Health As-socia- persed $64,000 of municipal tion which requested $6,000 grant money in very short, and the Clarington Older Adult order, Monday morning. ■ ' - GRANTS see page 4 1 Traditionally Clarington awards $1 per capita, in a municipal grant fund, to eligible eligible community organization providing programs and services services within the Municipality. This year 42 applications were received requesting a total of $132,438.40. The. 2006 Municipal Municipal Grant pot contained $80,000." Three of the applicants requested in excess of Jhe $5,000 limit established some years ago. These requests were from the Newcastle Community Community Hall Board who requested $13,000, the Cana- What's inside... Firefighters recognized See page 7