Three arrests net departure and deportation orders
Kirsten Murphy
Northern News Services
Yellowknife (Mar 14/01) - Three people are leaving Canada on either departure or deportation orders after three separate arrests in Yellowknife.
Citizen and Immigration Canada and Yellowknife RCMP are sending Anjam Shahzad to Britain, Hasaan Kayani to Pakistan and Tuy Thuy Thi Le to Vietnam.
The back-to-back arrests are highly unusual, said RCMP Cpl. Susan Munn.
"In all three cases we had excellent co-operation between the RCMP, Citizen and Immigration Canada and the general public," Munn said.
"I guess things happen in threes."
Anjam Shahzad, 40, has until April 8 to leave Canada after being convicted and fined $750 for working as a property manager since October 2000 without the proper employment papers.
Immigration and Citizenship Canada handed Shahzad a 30-day departure order on March 9. He was released on a cash bond. Shahzad's conviction means he must wait five years before the government will consider letting him return to Canada.
Hasaan Kayani, 28, was arrested in Yellowknife and ordered back to Pakistan on Feb. 27 after evading a 1998 deportation order issued in Montreal.
Munn would not reveal where Kayani worked, but said he held various sales and company jobs during his two years in Yellowknife. Citizen and Immigration is deciding on Kayani's deportation date.
Police arrested Tuy Thuyn Thi Le, 25, after she and a male companion crashed through the ice on the Ingraham Trail Feb. 28.
"The (officer) picked up that something was not right, conducted further inquiries and determined this woman is what we call an over stay visitor," Munn said.
Le has since returned to Alberta and has until March 31 to leave the country, Munn said.
