Crime & Courts

RCMP getting air support from military in hunt for homicide suspects

The RCMP are getting some help from the Canadian military as they continue the hunt for two young homicide suspects in northern Manitoba.Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale tweeted last night that th...

Jul 27, 2019 (Submitted photo/CKOM News)

B.C. murder suspect not a neo-Nazi, is more fascinated by Russia, dad says

PORT ALBERNI, B.C. - A murder suspect who allegedly sent photographs of a swastika armband and a Hitler Youth knife to an online friend was not a Nazi sympathizer, but he did think the memorabilia was...

Jul 26, 2019 Alan Schmegelsky, father of Bryer Schmegelsky, poses for a photo during an interview with The Canadian Press in Mill Bay B.C. on Wednesday, July 24, 2019. The father of a suspect in the deaths of three people in northern British Columbia says his son is in "very serious pain" and he expects a nationwide manhunt will end in the young man's death. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Laura Kane

Alberta RCMP apologize for poor investigation into Indigenous woman's death

EDMONTON - The commanding officer of the RCMP in Alberta has apologized to the family of an Indigenous woman who disappeared nine years ago and whose killer has never been found.Amber Tuccaro was 20 y...

Jul 25, 2019 Amber Tuccaro

Police seek B.C. murder suspects in swamp, bush, bugs of northern Manitoba

The deputy mayor of a remote northern Manitoba town says residents are locking their doors earlier than usual after word of a police manhunt in the area for two suspects in the deaths o...

Jul 24, 2019

Crime rate rose in 2018 but country still safer than a decade ago

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's crime rate ticked up again in 2018, for a fourth year in a row, though it was still lower than it was a decade ago.The severity of crime also rose by two ...

Jul 22, 2019

Defence calling no evidence in case of German tourist shot west of Calgary

CALGARY - The defence is calling no evidence on behalf of a youth accused of shooting a German tourist in the head on a highway west of Calgary last summer. The teen from the Stoney Nakoda First ...

Jul 18, 2019

Sask. RCMP officer charged with unsafe storage of gun

A Saskatchewan RCMP officer is facing charges in connection to an incident that happened in Saskatoon last fall, involving a gun being stolen from inside an unmarked RCMP vehicle.Const. Shannon Drall ...

Jul 17, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff)

Interviews with family of highway shooting victim heard in Calgary court

CALGARY - The trial of an Alberta youth accused of firing a gun at a German tourist on a highway west of Calgary is having to rely on police interviews done with the family after he was shot...

Jul 17, 2019

Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman sentenced to life in prison

NEW YORK - The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, a humbling end for a drug lord once notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or t...

Jul 17, 2019

RCMP release sketches of two suspects involved in home invasion, shooting

Composite sketches of two suspects involved in a home invasion and shooting last month have been released by the RCMP.Police say officers attended a Meadow Lake apartment June 30 to respond to a compl...

Jul 15, 2019 (submitted photo/Meadow Lake RCMP)