標題: Dispute over Capilano mobile home park results in 5 arrests [打印本頁] 作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-1-27 08:11 標題: Dispute over Capilano mobile home park results in 5 arrests
Dispute over Capilano mobile home park results in 5 arrests
West Vancouver cops arrested five people at Capilano Mobile Park in what’s been described as a “family” dispute between factions of the Squamish Indian Band.
Chief Gibby Jacob said Wednesday the band was owed “near half- a-million dollars” by the family that has run the RV and mobile home park since 1966.
As police erected barricades, a group of protesters said police were acting “unlawfully” by enforcing a B.C. Supreme Court injunction to have the owners removed.
“This court case was brought up by the Squamish Indian Band against its own people,” said a spokesman who would only identify himself as Klath-bay. “They want to put up highrises here. So we said, ‘No, you can’t remove us from our own land. It’s against the law.’”
The Squamish Indian band filed a lawsuit in December against the business owners, saying they had refused to pay the band for using the land.
The band then got two court injunctions, one on Jan. 14 and another on Jan. 20, ordering Dennis Baker, Franklin Baker, Darlene Baker, Pamela Baker Pack, Wayne Baker and Wade Baker to give up possession of the land.
The injunction also appointed a receiver to take over and run the business.
“We had no choice but to do what we did,” Jacob told The Province. “The decision was not taken lightly. They were given the opportunity to vacate and they chose not to do it.”
Jacob said no one is being evicted from their homes and efforts are being made so that all employees keep their jobs.
“We like to think of ourselves as one family and to have this happening in the family is distressing,” he added.
Asked if the land will be used to build highrise apartments, Jacobs replied that, at some point in time, “given the valuable nature of the land and the opportunities that are present,” the band may change the land’s usage.
He said the mobile park owners were told in 1998 that their 10-year permit would only be extended until 2008.
West Vancouver Cpl. Jag Johal said police went to the mobile home park at 7:30 a.m.
“We read the [court] order to the individuals and they did not wish to leave, so five arrests were made,” he said. “Those five people are in police custody until such time as they properly identify themselves and comply by the conditions set out in the injunction.”
He said the five may appear before a B.C. Supreme Court judge Thursday.作者: tiffiant 時間: 2011-1-27 08:11
Tla-bay (left) and Tla-qwa gilla (right) stand at Capilano mobile park after West Vancouver police arrested Squamish First Nations members during a civil dispute between band members in West Vancouver on Jan. 26.
Photograph by: Arlen Redekop, PNG
