Police are this week reporting success in their investigations into a spate of robberies in Parksville and Qualicum Beach following one man's guilty plea and the laying of additional charges against a man accused of three break and enters.

Oceanside RCMP say Adam Lee Blackwell, 34, of Qualicum Beach pleaded guilty in Nanaimo provincial court to robbing the Riverside Resort in that community on Nov. 17, 2007. He also plead guilty to the Nov. 20 robbery of What's Cooking in the downtown. Blackwell was sentenced to 18 months in jail and was handed a lifetime firearms ban.

Accused now in three break and enters, Tod Nathan Bishop faces further investigation by police. Bishop was originally arrested and charged with breaking into Arbutus Chiropractic in Parksville on May 3, 2009.

The 29 year old Parksville man was this week charged with two more counts of breaking and entering, both times to Qualicum Beach's Bayview Medical Clinic (the first on Aug. 21, 2008 and the second on Jan. 30, 2009).

Last week, officers and a canine unit apprehended three suspects in a break-in at the BC Hydro compound on Memorial Avenue in Qualicum Beach on June. 18.

Two males, 37 year old Daniel Fredericks and 32 year old Favian Larouche remain in custody and were to appear in Nanaimo provincial court June 23. A female, 37 year old Lisa Fredericks, was released and will appear in court on Sept. 30, 2009. All are residents of Nanaimo and all have been charged with break and enter. The suspected reason for the robbery was to get spools of wire — an ongoing problem for Hydro on the Island and throughout B.C.

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