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Vancouver police call out to sex victims
Last Updated: Friday, February 11, 2011 | 3:26 PM PT Comments31Recommend5.
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Vancouver Police have taken the extraordinary step of issuing a public plea for victims of a man called Martin Tremblay.

Police have taken the extraordinary step of issuing a public plea for alleged victims of Martin Tremblay. (VPD)
Tremblay is currently facing four counts of trafficking cocaine and one charge of possession of cocaine for the purposes of trafficking, but has a criminal record for plying teenage Aboriginal girls with alcohol and drugs and then sexually assaulting them.

Police believe there are more victims and they're asking them to come forward in an effort to keep Tremblay in jail.

Tremblay, 45, was convicted of five counts of sexual assault in 2002 and sentenced to 14 months after he was found guilty of plying five aboriginal teenaged girls with drugs and alcohol and then videotaping his sex acts with them after they passed out.

In March 2010, Tremblay was linked to two teenaged girls who died within hours of each other.

Kayla LaLonde, 16, and Martha Hernandez, 17, had partied at Tremblay's home the night before they died as a result of overdosing on a combination of drugs and alcohol.

Lalonde was found dead on a Burnaby street after witnesses said she had been dumped from a van.

Hernandez died later after being rushed by ambulance from Tremblay's Richmond home.

No charges have been laid in connection with the girls' deaths.

More charges in alleged terror ring
Police also said charges have been laid against 11 individuals for crimes targeting vulnerable people in the Downtown Eastside. In all, 48 charges have been laid including extortion, sexual assault, forcible confinement and assault with a weapon


Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/canada/british-columbia/story/2011/02/11/bc-dtes-charges.html#ixzz1Dhm371wI
 
Police in Prince George, B.C. are collecting DNA samples from cab drivers, reportedly as part of their investigation into the dozens of murders and disappearances of women in the northern part of the province.

Since the late 1960s, more than two dozen women have been killed or have gone missing in the area, many of them along the remote stretch of Highway 16 between Prince George and Prince Rupert, which has been dubbed the Highway of Tears.

The RCMP has been investigating 18 of the cases under the name Project E-PANA.

In an effort to generate leads, police have been taking DNA samples from taxi drivers in the city, but declined to discuss the practice late Monday evening.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...way-of-tears-probe/article1907365/?cmpid=rss1
 
Sat Feb 19 2011Be the first to Comment 0 Recommend RCMP want help identifying Jane Doe linked to Pickton’s farm
http://www.thespec.com/news/canada/...identifying-jane-doe-linked-to-pickton-s-farm
VANCOUVER RCMP want the public’s help in solving the 16-year-old mystery of a woman whose partial remains were found on serial killer Robert Pickton’s farm.

Cpl. Annie Linteau says Mounties have reached out to police around the world to try and figure out Jane Doe’s identity, and will be posting a sketch of what she may have looked like on their website in the hope that a member of the public may recognize her.

Half her skull, with the vertebra attached, was found in 1995 by a man filling a water bottle at a creek in Mission, B.C.
 
[ame="http://websleuths.com/forums/showthread.php?t=129077"]Found Deceased Task Force Releases Sketch Of Jane Doe From Pickton Farm - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]
 
Hi folks - I just realized the link in the OP to this thread no longer functions, so I am locking this thread as defunct.

Please direct your posts throughout the forum as you see fit - the media sticky always needs work, for example. And the individual victim threads could use some attention.

[ame="http://websleuths.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=439"]Western Canada's Highway of Tears - Websleuths Crime Sleuthing Community[/ame]


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