DRUG HOUSES MAKE FOR BAD NEIGHBOURS

It's generally considered bad manners or dicey kharma to be glad
someone's dead, so let's just say there's a sense of relief that one
Geoffrey Cross, 43, has moved on.

Cross's neighbours on Riley Road have been encouraging him to move on
for some time. They didn't bludgeon him to death, as his acquaintances
appear to have done Saturday night, but they certainly called the
police enough times about the goings-on at the Cross residence and
about the creepy people his home-based business was drawing into their
neighbourhood.

Some, out of fear and frustration, put their homes up for sale. Now it
appears their concerns were justified.

In a speech last month to local business leaders, Staff Sgt. Brian
Hunter, commander of the Oceanside RCMP detachment, said his officers
are developing plans to dismantle several drug houses in the area.
Let's hope this incident moves those plans up the detachment's
priority list.