SECOND MAN CHARGED WITH MURDER IN 1990S DRUG-RELATED B.C. DEATHS

VANCOUVER -- Police have arrested and charged a second man in a massive
investigation of drug-related killings in the British Columbia's Lower
Mainland in the mid-1990s.

Mark Therrien, 38, was arrested yesterday morning. He appeared before a
justice of the peace later in the day and was formally charged with five
counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of five people at a farm in
Abbotsford, B.C., in September of 1996.

Mr. Therrien was remanded in custody until an appearance in provincial
court in Abbotsford on Monday.

His lawyer, Paul McMurray, also represents Robert Moyes, who was charged
earlier this week in the Abbotsford killings, as well as with two counts of
first-degree murder in the deaths of a suburban Burnaby couple in late
December, 1995.

Police said all the killings were related to large-scale drug trafficking
on an international level.

Mr. Therrien, an auto-body mechanic originally from Ontario, was arrested
yesterday morning as he was being released on bail on an unrelated charge,
Mr. McMurray said.

Mr. Therrien had been on parole, but it was revoked May 18 after he was
charged with theft and fleeing police, said Tracy Thompson, chairwoman of
the B.C. Board of Parole.

"We suspended his parole [and] issued a warrant for his arrest so he would
continue to be held," she said.

Sheldon Fraser, spokesman for the National Parole Board, said Mr. Therrien
completed a federal sentence in December, 1997, but "he is no longer a
federal offender."

Mr. Therrien and Mr. Moyes, 47, knew each other, Mr. McMurray said.

"At this point, it's very unlikely I'm going to be representing both for
much longer," he said. "There's an issue I have to look at whether there's
a conflict between them."

Mr. Moyes appeared in provincial court in Abbotsford, about 80 kilometres
east of Vancouver, on Thursday and was remanded to Aug. 22.

Mr. Moyes was on day parole from an Abbotsford halfway house when both sets
of slayings occurred. The National Parole Board said Thursday it will
investigate his release.

Raymond Graves, 70, his wife Santo, 56, and their son David Dangha, 37,
were killed in their Abbotsford farmhouse.

Daryl and Teresa Klassen, both 30, who were visiting the Graveses, were
found dead in an adjacent shed.

Police said the Graveses, who were facing attempted murder charges at the
time of their deaths, were cocaine traffickers, and that Daryl Klassen was
associated with the drug trade.

Nine months earlier, Eugene Uyeyama, 35, and his wife Michelle, 30, were
found dead in the gutted remains of their Burnaby home. Police said they
also had drug ties.