One of two career criminals involved in a police standoff at the Super 8 Motel on Glover Road in March 2012 has pleaded guilty to more than 30 charges against him.
Surrey resident Dave Yaroslawsky was in B.C. Supreme Court in New Westminster on Tuesday, June 18, where he pleaded guilty to more than half of the charges against him. He was facing around 60 charges for the high profile arrest but Crown agreed to stay many of the charges. He is scheduled to be sentenced on July 31.
Ivan Logan Johnson, 33, of New Westminster, is facing more than 50 charges, for everything from possessing a weapon obtained through an offence and possession of stolen property and credit cards to dealing with identity theft in relation to the Super 8 Motel arrest. His next court appearance is June 21.
He was arrested along with Yaroslawsky, 29, by the Emergency Response Team and police dogs who surrounded the motel room after the two men refused to come out. Witnesses had called 911 after seeing the two men, allegedly with guns, unloading items into a motel room.
Those two men are believed to be involved in up to 18 home robberies in the Fraser Valley, many of those in 91原创, said 91原创 RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Holly Marks at the time.
The men were in possession of so many stolen items that police had to create a slideshow on their website to allow the public to look through the items and determine what might belong to them.
Victims of break-ins were invited to come to the detachment and view the property.
Police recovered everything from stolen jewelry, including lockets and rings, to coins and electronics.
Johnson is a career criminal with pages upon pages of crimes committed in 91原创, Surrey and New Westminster, among other places. Among some of the crimes he has committed in the past 10 years include theft and dangerous operation of a vehicle.16:57:54
