Tag Archives: Crime & Courts
RCMP scaling down search for murder suspects in northern Manitoba
WINNIPEG - The RCMP are scaling back the search for two British Columbia murder suspects in remote northern Manitoba.Assistant Commissioner Jane MacLatchy said over the past week officers have searche...
Jul 31, 2019 THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO, Twitter, Manitoba RCMP, @rcmpmb
Both suspects wanted in La Loche shooting arrested
Both Ronald Park and Cody Robertson are now in custody. - One man was arrested and two more are wanted by police following a shooting in La Loche. RCMP said they received a call that a vehicle parked ...
Jul 30, 2019 Ronald Park and Cody Robertson are wanted after a shooting in La Loche. (supplied/RCMP)
Man with outstanding warrants arrested near Ministikwan Lake Cree Nation
A 24-year-old man wanted on several charges was arrested by RCMP near Ministikwan Lake Cree Nation.At around 1 p.m. on July 29, RCMP stopped a vehicle in between the Cree Nation and the town of Loon L...
Jul 30, 2019 (file photo/meadowlakeNOW staff)
Police following tip that B.C. homicide suspects were seen in York Landing, Man.
Police are following up on a tip that two B.C. homicide suspects were seen southwest of Gillam, the northern Manitoba community that has been the focus of their search since last week.RCMP posted an u...
Jul 28, 2019 Officers look through a remote lake area alongside a landed helicopter in the Gillam, Man., area in July 28, 2019, police image published to social media. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/HO-Twitter, Royal Canadian Mounted Police, @rcmpmb)
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&n...
Jul 27, 2019 Military air support arrives for manhunt in Manitoba. (Manitoba RCMP)
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