Crime & Courts

Suspected Break In to Downtown Gas Station

There appears to have been a break-in attempt at the Downtown CO-OP Gas bar.Visitors to the business earlier this morning were met with locked doors and security personnel on site. Police tape and sha...

Apr 19, 2019 photo courtesy EverythingGP

Bystander stops suspect who appears in video to set car on fire with fuel

EDMONTON - A burly, bearded man wearing a Hawaiian shirt is being praised for chasing and tackling a person who, in a video, appeared to douse a vehicle with gasoline and set it on fire in Edmonton on...

Apr 14, 2019 photo courtesy the Canadian Press

RCMP search business owned by Calgary United Conservative candidate Peter Singh

CALGARY - RCMP have searched an auto-repair shop owned by a United Conservative Party candidate in Calgary.Mounties seized a computer hard drive, other electronic devices and a suitcase Thursday night...

Apr 13, 2019

ASIRT investigating police shooting incident at Eckville oil field site

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team has taken over the investigation into an incident on Saturday in Eckville.Sylvan Lake RCMP originally responded around 8:15 a.m. to an oil field site on 54 A...

Apr 07, 2019

Owner of trucking company involved in Humboldt Broncos crash pleads guilty to safety violations

CALGARY, AB - The owner of the trucking company involved in the deadly Humboldt Broncos bus crash has pleaded guilty to multiple charges of failing to comply with safety regulations.A lawyer for Sukhm...

Mar 27, 2019

RCMP warns about increased phone scams

Grande Prairie RCMP say they have been receiving increased reports from residents regarding fraudulent Canada Revenue Agency phone calls and would like to warn the public. Multiple reports from reside...

Mar 25, 2019

Judge rules Omar Khadr's sentence is finished

EDMONTON - An Alberta judge has ruled that a war crimes sentence for former Guantanamo Bay prisoner Omar Khadr has expired.An eight-year sentence imposed in 2010 would have ended last October had Khad...

Mar 25, 2019

Drugs, guns seized in search of Grande Prairie homes

A search of two homes in Grande Prairie last week uncovered a variety of drugs and weapons.ALERT Grande Prairie's organized crime and gang team, with the assistance of Grande Prairie RCMP, searched th...

Mar 21, 2019 Photo: ALERT Grande Prairie

Man serving manslaughter sentence escapes from Indigenous-run healing lodge

EDMONTON - A man serving nearly nine years for manslaughter and one other crime has escaped from an Indigenous-run healing lodge in Edmonton.Police say staff at the downtown Stan Daniels Healing Centr...

Mar 21, 2019

Police find over $600k worth of illegal drugs, cash and firearms following searches

Police have found close to $615,000 worth of illegal drugs, cash, and firearms following two search warrants in the city and the Town of Wembley.On March 17 the Grande Prairie RCMP Municipal Drug Sect...

Mar 20, 2019 Photo supplied by RCMP