Lethbridge Herald (Newspaper) - June 25, 2008, Lethbridge, Alberta ONLINE EDITION June 25,2008 LETHBRIDGE HERALD INSIDE deal defenceman to Chilliwack B1 invited to national team camp NEW TWIST IN CLEMENTS SAGA the southern alberta man hired by a agency in b.c. - while he was still serving a three-year sentence for theft and forgery here - pleads guilty to similar charges By PAMELA KEITH Lethbridge Herald A Raymond man with a history of embezzling money from his employers recently pleaded guilty to theft and forgery charges in a B.C. provincial court Bryan Lee 43, appeared in Sparwood Provincial Court to enter guilty pleas to theft over forgery and using a forged About was stolen from the Rocky Mountain Innovation Centre Society in B.C. - a initiative created to help small and upcoming businesses in the East Kootenay area by providing marketing expertise for companies unable to do it In 2003, the society folded due to a lack of prompting police to launch a lengthy According to Clements was hired to run the project and became the executive overseeing Investigators allege between August 2001 and the end of January 2003, he siphoned money away from the society to use for his own personal at the time Clements was hired for the he was still serving a three-year sentence for theft and forgery from a 1998 conviction in for which he was out on parole after serving time in The B.C. charges are the latest in a string of scams over the Story CONTINUED on Bryan Lee Clements Soaring surplus oil prices lead to surplus The Canadian Press EDMONTON - Alberta's latest fiscal report shows the province is awash in energy its population is just about everyone has a job and disposable incomes are the highest in Record high oil prices pushed Alberta's budget surplus to billion in 2007-08 - despite record The government's financial report for the year ended March 31 shows that resource revenues shot well past early predictions and reached billion - the in Alberta ' Government officials concede that with oil now trading at more than a another windfall of resource revenues is in the offing for the current fiscal An analyst for recently predicted Alberta's surplus could more than double this year to billion as oil prices continue to CONTINUED on Page A2 Stocks Comics Classified Deaths Entertainment Living Missing Pets Opinion Sports Scoreboard Weather B5 B6 C7 D1 B8 A6 B4 Price - Plus GST 4 ' i J V Mike Fekete holds his daughter while talking with Herald reporter Pamela Keith after a suspected homicide next door to his home on the 1500 block of 5 Avenue At Lethbridge Regional Police Marco and Stuart record measurements starting at the spot of a large blood splatter in an alley on the 1500 block of 5 Avenue North as part of their Deadly morning One man discovered tuesday morning in a back alley died while a second man found nearby suffered injuries and remains in hospital By PAMELA KEITH Lethbridge Herald Residents of a neighbourhood in north Lethbridge were shaken and left questioning the safety of their community Tuesday morning after hearing the news that what appears to be the city's second homicide of the year took place close to Police received a 911 call around 11:30 p.m. Monday about an injured man in the 1500 block of 5 Avenue When emergency crews arrived at the they located a badly injured 37-year-old man in a back He was taken to Chinook Regional then to the Foothills Hospital in Calgary where he later died from his injuries around 2:45 a.m. Police have not revealed what kind of injuries the man Mike Fekete lives next door to the home searched by police and wasn't aware anything was amiss on the night in question until he looked out the window around 11:30 p.m. and saw the street had been blocked off and taken over by emergency with an ambulance pulled up to the back The next who was taking care of his two young was surprised to see more police cars and officers taking photos of the street and which had a trail of blood splatters leading to a large blood stain in a back kind of it being so close to I'm a little shaken said the 36-year-old, who has lived in the neighbourhood for six years and has seen it get a little rough around the edges in the last two didn't hear any fighting or I just saw the neighbour talking to police for a Javier Rivera has lived in the neighbourhood for 13 years and has always felt safe in the until Rivera said upon hearing the news about the apparent homicide near his have a family and is this going to be safe A second man with a broken arm and head injuries was found on the street a short distance away from the scene and was also taken to Chinook Regional Hospital where he remains in stable The names of the two men have not been released as the Lethbridge regional police major crimes section continues to investigate the An autopsy of the 37-year-old victim was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon but the results have not yet been Police are not commenting on whether there is a connection between the two men or if there are any suspects at this The incident is in close proximity to the scene of the city's first homicide of the year in May when a 53-year-old man was assaulted in the Bank of Montreal parking lot at 2310 13 St. N. Rodney Kim Arndt appeared to have injures when he was transported to Chinook Regional but died nearly a week after the Charles Robert 45, of Lethbridge is charged with manslaughter and is scheduled to appear in Lethbridge Provincial Court this HERALD PHOTOS BY DAVID ROSSITER