Tag Archives: 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