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8- PORT PERRY STAR - Wednesday, August 5, 1998 "Scugog's Community Newspaper of Choice" Impaired charge was laid after accident Former mayor's trial is adjourned for two weeks Former Scugog Township Mayor Howard Hall will go to trial this month to answer to charges that he was impaired when he was involved in a car accident near Port Perry last year. Mr. Hall made a brief appearance in an Oshawa courtroom Friday, where he was originally scheduled to have his case heard by a judge. But his lawyer, Paul Greenway, asked the court for an adjournment. Court was told Mr. Hall's lawyer and the Crown Attorney could not come to an agreement on a plea arrangement, and that the matter would have to go to trial. A date is to be set Friday (Aug. 7). The former mayor faces charges including impaired driving and failing to remain at the scene of an A accident following a collision on Hwy. 7A west of Port Perry on Nov. 13 last year. Police said Mr. Hall's eastbound Cadillac sideswiped a westbound car, and laid the charge after he was given a breathalyzer test. The accident occurred just a few days after his unsuccessful attempt at re-election in Scugog. Witnesses who showed up for Friday morning's proceedings were instructed to come back to the court for the trial Aug. 13. Howard Hall World Sorts Car GT1, E72, ET INTERNATIONAL RAGEWAY A i Ro Pn LL Motorola Cup Sueedvision Cup Canadian Champ Car Lights Plus... The Toyota Sports Racers Take advantage of a weekend of racing and camping! Order your tickets now! For ticket information call: 905-983-9141 or 1 -888-368-5989 ° Ticketmaster: 416-870-8000 L ¢3 Dangerous offender tag could send man to prison for life From page 1 Wearing bright orange coveralls, he was led into the room in wrist cuffs and ankle chains. The cuffs were removed while he sat through the proceedings. Four very fit-looking mem- bers of the Durham Police Tactical Unit in body armor were in the courtroom, and at least one other was in the lobby outside. McArthur is being held in custody in the maximum security federal facility at Millhaven, and was trans- ported to Whitby for his brief court appearance last week. During his lengthy criminal career that dates back to when he was a young teen, he has a history of escaping custody. As well as the dangerous offender hearing in Whitby, which will likely get under way in early December, McArthur will be 1n a Kingston court in early January to begin trial on a murder charge unrelated to the Port Perry incident. And he faces charges for an armed robbery In Belleville. Crown Attorney Lori Ann Turner, who along with Michael Hill was co-prose- cutor at the trial of the brothers, suggested that McArthur does not need to be present at the Sept. 3 assignment court. But his Ottawa lawyer Greg LaFontaine told the court McArthur has requested that he be grant- ed his right to be present. A man of average height with a slim, wiry build and flecks of grey starting to appear in his dark hair, McArthur sat impassively through the hearing last week. Just before 7:30 on the evening of Oct. 20, 1994, McArthur and an accom- plice, their faces covered with dark balaclavas, walked into the bank branch and demanded that tellers open the inner vault, or "treasury" as it is called. When the manager, who was working that evening, came out of his office, he was shot at close range just above the knee with a heavy calibre revolver. Tellers eventually opened the vault, and the pair escaped on foot with $50,000 in a large white bag. The money and the weapons used, a pistol and a high-powered semi-auto- matic rifle, have never been recovered. As two police cruisers with three officers arrived in the plaza parking lot, they were met with rapid fire rifle shots from the south end of the mall, which was busy with shoppers that Thursday evening. The three officers were felled by the shots and a local realtor at work at her desk in an office on the north side of Hwy. TA was struck in the back by a bul- let that shattered the front window. All five wounded that night have recovered. McArthur and his accomplice continued their flight on foot to the rear of the Canadian Tire store, where they hopped onto two bicycles that had been stolen in Port Perry earlier in the evening. They aban- doned the bicycles behind homes in Apple Valley, and continued on foot to a Major St. residence. There they forced an elderly man at gun-point to drive them in his van to the parking lot at the hospital, where McArthur's red Camaro was parked. An eyewitness identified McArthur as one of two men she saw getting into the car that night. And DNA on a dark balaclava found near the hospital parking lot matched his. The pair managed to elude police road blocks thrown up around the community that evening. A Durham Police detec- tive driving to the robbery scene noticed a red Camaro make a suspicious U-turn near a road- block on Simcoe St. (at Lake Scugog Lumber) and noted the licence plate number. It was traced later that night to McArthur, who was living in a Kingston apartment with his common-law wife and two children. He was arrested there at 8 o'clock the next morning. Angus was arrested a short while later at the Kingston home of their mother. The dangerous offender hearing may take three weeks and will hear testi- mony from prison psychia- trists and psychologists, as well as victims of previous crimes. Tellers from a bank McArthur robbed in Hepworth Ontario in 1983, and a former Metro Police officer shot and wounded after a jewelry store hold- up in Toronto 21 years ago, are expected to give state- ments. Orono fair dance is on Aug. 8 A fundraising dance for the Durham Central (Orono) Fair featuring the band Chaser from Bowmanville will be held on Aug. 8 from 9 p.m. until 1 a.m. at the Orono Community Centre. Tickets are $20 per cou- ple and are available from Dulees Restaurant on Main St. Orono or from Gord at Orono Lumben Tickets may also be avail- able at the door. Lunch provided. Ve