It seemed they weren’t too pleased to have a new man in Bathurst cutting in on their illegal business activities. As for me, there were only two issues I was concerned about, one was their involvement in private security work. Besides Jim I was fortunate to have another friend, Frenchie, a police officer who usually kept me up-to-date as to what was happening around the police station. One evening, after a break-in at a Canadian Tire store, I received a call from Frenchie saying that I should check Sgt. Levine’s car because he had four new tires on, which he said came from the break-in. I wasn’t surprised to hear that because back in the latter part of the seventies and into the mid-eighties, it was said, and not only by Frenchie, that a number of police officers were being accused of some sort of theft. As for me checking out the tires on Sgt. Levine’s vehicle, I wasn’t interested because I had my own problems to concentrate on. Furthermore if the tires had come from a break-in that was a police matter.
