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City B2 CALGARY HERALD Tuesday, October 20, 1993 THE COURTS Fake cop used real badge, witness says BOB BEATY Calgary Herald "A woman who said she is an award-winning film producer admitted to two fateful, non-fiction flaws in the court witness box Monday. She said she was a cocaine addict once excited by a lover who posed as a Calgary cop while ripping off drug dealers. The twisted tale was spelled out for jurors in the trial of Marty E. Seper. Seper faces eight charges stemming from home invasions on drug dealers where he and the woman's boyfriend allegedly used a police badge while "confiscating" drugs and money.

Roseanna Odette Santha Istance, who said she worked on the television program, F-X: The Series, admitted to using some of those drugs and money. She said her boyfriend, Larry Petersen, was given the authentic Calgary city police badge by two cocaine dealers. Petersen and Seper would then use a pellet pistol as an additional prop and barge into drug dealers' homes saying they were detectives there to take "confiscate" drugs or money from drug deals, Istance said. Jurors heard that some of the victims were restrained with handcuffs which Petersen bought at a sex shop. Istance told Crown prosecutor Lloyd Robertson that Petersen also posed as a policeman while convincing some Calgary retailers that phony $20, $50 and $100 bills were floating around the city.

Petersen would then take samples of the retail ers' bills promising he would return after checking the serial numbers against those in a computer file in his police car. Istance was reduced to tears when peppered with questions by defence lawyer Andre Ouel-lette about her own honesty back then, and why she didn't warn police about her lover and Seper. Petersen, who earlier pled guilty to the ruse and to the robberies, appeared in prison fatigues to tell jurors Seper was his accomplice. The trial before Court of Queen's Bench Justice Peter Mclntyre is scheduled to last 10 days. CANADA POST TRAFFIC Postal outlet upgrade costs irk operators Vi ir TV Post spokeswoman Teresa Williams.

Slumping stamp sales and certain stamp outlets' attempts to boost revenues by selling discount stamps to gas stations outside their designated areas are prime reasons for the rate change, Williams said. "One of the reasons we're delaying the program is to have a better opportunity to meet with the outlet operators, share information and get feedback on how it will affect them," she said. Larry Sandul, chairman of the Calgary Regional Postal Franchisee Asso BOB BERGEN Calgary Herald Private Canadian postal outlets including about 45 in Calgary are being forced to spend up to $20,000 each on new millennium-friendly computers and counter facelifts they say they can't afford. At the same time, Canada Post has slashed the fees the outlet operators receive. The operators say the changes will eventually drive some of them out of business and affect service to the Greg Fulmes, Calgary Herald Emergency crews extract a taxi driver from his car after it was in collision with a C-Train on 36th Street N.E.

Monday. Cabby in hospital after C-Train collision AY N.E. when it was struck by a northbound train on the 36th Street tracks. "Witnesses say the barriers were down and the bells were sounding and he tried to go around the barriers," said Sgt Rick Preston of the city police traffic unit. It took rescue crews about 20 minutes to remove the driver from the Yellow Cab taxi His injuries were not considered life threatening.

A female passenger on the train was taken to Peter Lougheed Hospital with a minor arm injury. Calgary Herald A cabby was taken to Foothills Hospital after his taxi collided with a C-Train during Monday's afternoon rush hour. The cab was attempting to turn left from 36th Street onto 26th Avenue "It's frustrating that Canada Post is saying that these outlets will be coming out ahead," said Kathy Hale, president of Technicopy in Southcentre Mall. Hale runs a postal outlet as an adjunct to her printing and photocopy business. Using Canada Post's own figures, she says her company will lose about $23,105 in revenue annually when new stamp fees come into effect on Dec.

Those fees will reduce the profits the country's 3,500 private postal outlets receive to five per cent from 17.5 per cent. In Hale's case, that means her business's revenues from stamp sales will drop to $21,741 from $86,963, based on Canada Post ciation, representmg about 30 independent businesses, said the feedback from the franchisees is all bad. The pharmacist-owner of the Woodbine Postal Outlet said in addition to the stamp fee cash grab, Canada Post is requiring him like other outlets to spend up to $20,000 for computer upgrades to become year 2000 compliant and a retail area facelift. Canada Post is offering a variety of implementation and lease options, but Sandul said they won't help. "If I try to amortize that over five years with a new lease, I would never get that paid back," he said.

Sandul said he has no option but to run the postal outlet as a loss-leader that brings Larry Sandul says franchisee feedback is all negative. The Issue Upgrades for private postal outlets. What's New: Outlet operators say fee cuts and required upgrades will drive many out of business. TRAILER ROLLOVER Goats' freedom short-lived MARIA DEL MAR CANTON Calgary Herald A blown-out tire gave a couple of goats a short reprieve Monday as they were being taken to a slaughterhouse. The trailer in which they were being hauled broke loose after one of its tires blew out It hit a curb at 61st Avenue and 52nd Street S.E.

and rolled over, allowing two of the animals a short period of freedom. "One was dead after the rollover and another one didn't look very good," said Const. John Webster of the city police. The newly freed goats wandered into a nearby field, but were quickly rounded up by the High River farmer who had been hauling them. He loaded all the animals into his van and continued on to a slaughterhouse where the surviving goats met their inevitable fate.

The trailer sustained minor damage and no charges were laid. RESTORATION Town hall plan gets cash SAM KNIGHT Calgary Herald A plan to recreate Calgary's town hall of 1885 has been given a financial boost from the Millennium Bureau in Ottawa. The bureau is giving Heritage Park $116,700 for the project. That sum is almost a third of the $375,000 cost of the Calgary Town Hall Millennium Project. "Heritage Park, our board and volunteers, were absolutely astounded and delighted.

"That's a lot of money from a federal bureau," said Jeanette Pyle, development manager of the southwest Calgary historical park. The original building's safe doors, bell and jail doors have already been donated for the restoration project, which will be a tribute to Calgary's earliest civic government The project will be completed by May 2000. projections. A new fixed service fee of $25,000, plus increased commissions for business postage meter machines, will offset some of those losses, but not enough, she said. "After I've been given $25,000 I will still lose $22,000," she said.

The new rates were to have gone into effect on Oct. 1, but have been postponed until Dec. 1, said Canada customers into his southwest pharmacy. John Gorman, national vice-president of the Association of Canadian Postal Franchisees said few of its 1,000 franchise holders have that luxury. "It they continue to push this through to maintain the status quo, there's going to be a good number out of business," Gorman said.

Oct. 20, 1927 From the Herald archives back to 1883 THE COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH Frenzied attack shocked accused's friends, jurors told r-y 2' J- i fr Files ome enjoy fat but many do not in cuts of beef 1 1 S' BOB BEATY Calgary Herald A 15-year-old boy used his steel-toed boots to senselessly and repeatedly kick a bottle picker's head like a soccer ball, jurors heard Monday. The assault which was inter- All three then joined in the kicking frenzy on Segar. But after Segar fell limp, Roberts and Russell stopped. Eisnor didn't, Miller said.

Eisnor's continuing attack was so crazed, Roberts started kicking Eisnor to get him to stop, jurors heard. At that point, all three of the Some people do want all their meat lean Packers agree in principle with producers and retail butchers That the public demanded was largely individual and could not be classed as general teenagers left Segar bleeding on the frozen alley, "with his eyes open," while they went to a nearby convenience store, Miller said. It was Russell who suggested they return to see how the bottle picker was. That suggestion proved fatal for the victim because Eisnor went into another kicking rage. "Once again, he brutally and viciously, kicked and stomped on the victim in the head," Miller said.

The Case Second-degree murder trial of youth in death of bottle picker. What's New Court told youth kicked victim's head repeatedly. What's Next: Trial is scheduled to last seven days. rupted to take a break at a convenience store was unprovoked. It was so vicious it even shocked someone helping Jarvis L-Jay Eis-nor kick the prone bottle-picker, said Crown prosecutor Beth Miller.

Eisnor, now 18, faces a second-degree murder charge. The only mistake the victim, Frank Thomas Segar, 48, made that freezing, winter morning of Dec. 27, 1995, was to walk by Eisnor and his friends in a downtown alley while making his bottle picking rounds. Herald iron itself out, but that was what the retailer was faced with today. Some people, he said, did not want any fat at all." Mr.

Burns said his company favoured the suggested beef grading, but he thought it would be advisable only to have two grades to start with at any rate, one for the steers and the other for the heifers. was the opinion expressed by John Burns, general manager of the P. Burns Company, in presenting the viewpoint of the packer on the question of grading beef when the beef grading commission resumed its sitting on Thursday morning. Mr. Burns was dealing with a point that had been raised regarding well fattened meat.

People," he said, "came here from different parts of the world and had different ideas as to what they wanted. Probably in time it would Compiled by Norma Marr Photo Radar Hours later, the bottle picker was found by someone else. He died of his injuries on March 2, 1996, court heard. Jurors heard that Russell pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and was handed a six-month sentence. Roberts has not been charged for her role in the melee.

Both of Eisnor's friends will be Crown witnesses, Miller said, adding the evidence will be "graphic and gory." The trial before Court of Queen's Bench Justice Terrence McMahon is scheduled to last seven days. Eisnor was angry from an altercation with his two friends before Segar arrived in an alley at 221 ioth Ave. S.W., court heard. Miller told jurors that Eisnor and his friends Jessica Roberts and Michael Russell, were drinking 18 bottles of cider on a loading dock they called "the stoop" when Eisnor said: "I don't know why I'm so angry but somebody is going to pay for it. "At this point, Mr.

Segar appeared," Miller said. Eisnor ran up to Segar and knocked him to the ground with a blow to Segar's nose. The Calgary Police Service says it will deploy photo radar today at the following locations: Deerfoot Tr. N.E. and S.E.

17 Ave. S.W. (west of 69 Glenmore Tr. S.W. School zones and playground zones.

52 St. N.E., Douglasdale Blvd. S.E. Shaganappi Tr. N.W.

and 32 Aveycharleswood Dr. N.W..