Keep it off the Street and on the Track: An Expensive lesson being learned (Calgary Herald)

B.C. set to seize $2-million convoy of luxury cars used for street racing

 

 

BY FRANK LUBA, POSTMEDIA NEWS SEPTEMBER 8, 2011 5:06 PM

 

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RCMP Supt. Norm Gaumont shows some of the high-performance cars held at Bayview Auto Towing in Surrey after they were impoundedover alleged street racing. The drivers were issued $196 tickets and will lose six points.

Photograph by: Les Bazso - PNG, The Province; The Province

VANCOUVER — A group of young drivers who had their high-end vehicles seized after hitting speeds up to 200 kilometres on a Vancouver-area highway may lose their cars.

The 13 cars were supposed to be released Thursday after being in an impound lot for seven days. Instead the case has been referred to the B.C. Civil Forfeiture Office after the RCMP's Lower Mainland District Traffic Services provided information to the Federal Integrated Proceeds of Crime Section, which evaluated the Sept. 1 incident.

Supt. Norm Gaumont, head of traffic services for the RCMP in the Lower Mainland, said in a release there was not enough evidence against the drivers to proceed with criminal charges.

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