Alleged impaired driver plays bumper cars Friday night in Lower Fairview
The Insurance Cooperation of BC (ICBC) claims department was busy fielding calls from irate owners in Nelson after an alleged impaired driver played bumper cars with parked vehicles in the late hours of Friday (September 26) in Lower Fairview. Residents living on Maple Street behind Canada Safeway were alerted to the sounds of vehicles being […]
Woman charged after Castlegar man killed in fatal accident
A Castlegar man was killed Wednesday morning in Edmonton, after being struck by a truck just before 2 a.m. Global News is reporting that a Dodge Dakota truck was heading north from 23 Avenue down the ramp to Gateway Boulevard when it hit a pedestrian near the end of the ramp. Twenty-five-year-old Brandon (Brando) Robertson ...
Cops find grow op on Crown land
An illegal marijuana grow has been found and dismantled by police, according to RCMP Cpl. Darryl Orr. Orr said that on Sept.17, police followed up on a tip and discovered 77 marijuana plants with a street value of roughly $10,000, in a remote location about a kilometre off the Rialto Forest Service Road (which is about 10km...
No danger to public during prisoner escape Monday at Nelson Courthouse
A communications specialist with the Ministry of Justice/Attorney General said the public was not in any danger during a prisoner break Monday at the Nelson Courthouse. Lauren Mulholland, Communications Manager at the Ministry of Justice/Attorney General told The Nelson Daily Tuesday that “minimal force” was needed to apprehend...
UPDATED: Escape attempt at Nelson courthouse leads to another charge for accused armed robber
In a bizarre twist to an already strange story, the man charged with a string of armed robberies in the region tried, this morning, to escape custody and flee before his scheduled court appearance. Nelson Police Department Deputy Chief Paul Burkhart said Andrew (Zacharias) Stevenson, who was slated to appear in court to face...
UPDATED: Coroner releases name of man whose body was recovered from Kootenay Lake
The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who was discovered deceased in Kootenay Lake near Nelson on Sept. 11. The man was Paul Tayes, aged 56, from Surrey. Tayes had checked into the Kokanee Creek campground on Sept. 2, for one night and was reported missing by park staff on Sept. 4, after he failed to...
Police warn about risks of fake/toy guns
When police officers respond to reports of "man with a gun’, split second decisions need to be made. Unfortunately, these incidents regularly involve someone with their latest air gun (BB gun, pellet gun, airsoft gun) or replica, not realizing the risks associated with openly carrying or displaying these replicas in public ...
Coroners Service identifies man killed near Kootenay Pass summit
The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man who died after a motor vehicle incident near Kootenay Pass summit east of Salmo (Friday) August 29 as William Richard Wells, aged 57, of Medicine Hat, Alberta. Wells was the operator of a westbound motorcycle which went out of control and entered a ditch […]
Suspicious fire causes roughly $10,000 damage
Police are investigating a suspicious fire found in the Toyota parking lot Friday evening. Deputy fire chief Sam Lattanzio, who was first on scene, said the call came in at about 10:12 p.m., advising authorities there was what appeared to be a brush or dumpster fire. "There was a brush fire in the northwest corner of the lot,...
Man arrested in Surrey after 9-year-old sexually assaulted
Surrey RCMP has arrested a 23-year-old Surrey man following the sexual assault of a nine year old girl on Aug. 27 (see original release). On Thursday evening, Aug. 28, officers with the Surrey RCMP’s Special Victims Unit arrested Donovan Adams (no fixed address) in the city centre area of Surrey. After an extensive and intensive...
