Man who vandalized Komogata Maru memorial pleads guilty to North Vancouver dog theft

A Vancouver antheral who vandalized the Komagata Maru memorial successful Coal Harbour 3 years agone has been convicted successful the high-profile heist of a aureate retriever earlier this year.

Yuniar Kurniawan, 43, pleaded blameworthy to 1 number of theft successful Downtown Community tribunal Thursday and was sentenced to 1 time successful jailhouse and 12 months probation.

Amber, a six-year-old aureate retriever, was stolen extracurricular a Shoppers Drug Mart connected Lonsdale Avenue successful North Vancouver connected Feb. 12.

RCMP said Amber’s proprietor had concisely gone wrong the pharmacy and returned to find her canine missing.

Surveillance from a adjacent operation tract captured footage of a antheral walking a canine who matched Amber’s description.

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After constabulary released images of the canine and fishy connected societal media, Const. Mansoor Sahak said they received aggregate calls that Amber and her dognapper were connected a Seabus heading towards Vancouver.

Metro Vancouver Transit Police aboriginal arrested the fishy astatine Waterfront Skytrain presumption and returned Amber to her owner.

Kurniawan was besides sentenced to 1 time successful jailhouse and 12 months probation successful Dec. 2022, aft being convicted of mischief nether $5,000 successful the defacing of the Komagata Maru memorial.

The memorial was splattered with achromatic overgarment and manus prints, and plastered with graffiti successful August 2021.

The memorial contains the names of 376 passengers who sailed from India to Vancouver aboard the SS Komagata Maru successful 1914, but were denied introduction owed to racist exclusionary migration policies against those of Asian origin.