Cops ask for public help after late-night break-in
Police are asking for the public’s help in finding the people responsible for a break-in at Bubblee’s Liquor Store around midnight last night, according to RCMP Cpl. Dan Pollock. “The culprits smashed a window to gain entry to the business … located at 651 18th Street,” he said, adding police responded to the call […]
Police confirm Chipesia’s death as body of missing woman recovered in Goat River
The body of missing Creston woman Lana Chipesia was found Monday morning in the Goat River, several kilometres from where her car was found submerged two weeks ago. Using an RCMP Southeast District Air Services Helicopter from Kelowna, Creston RCMP searchers located the body of Chipesia downstream from the initial vehicle crash site near the […]
Cpl. Voisine dies in tragic diving accident
Cpl. Paul Voisine died in a recreational scuba diving accident last week. Voisine,along with five other divers was at the artificial reef near Snake Island off Vancouver Island and was off-duty at the time. During the dive Cpl. Voisine was located unconscious on the deck of the sunken vessel, HMCS Saskatchewan. Immediate efforts were undertaken […]
Four men arrested for sexually assaulting young girls
Four Nelson men have been charged with sexual interference in four separate cases involving girls as young as 12, according to Nelson Police Department Sgt. Paul Burkart. “Over the past seven months, Nelson Police Department has investigated a number of complaints that involve sexual relations between young girls and older teenage or young adult […]
Connection made in missing woman, submerged vehicle incident
There could be a second victim claimed by the swollen and swift moving waters of the Goat River, RCMP said Friday. The woman who went missing from Creston almost two weeks ago and the tragic death of the Ymir search and rescue volunteer are also connected, Creston RCMP revealed. Police confirmed the vehicle recovered from the Goat River […]
Brawl over beer turns bloody as knife cuts one man twice
Never mess with a man’s beer. After one man stole a full can of beer from another Monday night, a fight broke out in the lane behind the Hume Hotel. The man who stole the beer pulled out a folding knife and slashed the other man twice, once on the right hand and then on […]
Police nab alleged burglars in the act
Three out-of-town men are finding their visit to Castlegar yielded less than the promised Happily-Ever-After, after being arrested in what appears to have been a botched burglary attempt at Martech Electrical Systems Sunday. According to RCMP Staff Sgt. Laurel Mathew, Martech had been the victim of break-and-enters twice already this month, on June 14 and 24, […]
POLICE: RCMP seek help in tire theft
Police are asking for help to locate a truckload of tires valued at over $40,000 that was stolen from the Grand Forks Kal Tire shop. The break-in took place on Thursday, Jun. 23 sometime during the night and the thieves made off with numerous new and re-tread tires. “The outside fenced compound had been broken […]
Major bust of Compassion Club in Chilliwack, two days after it opened
Chilliwack RCMP have shut down a Compassion Club that advertised medical marijuana but was allegedly planning to peddle hash oil and drug-laced lollipops. The Be Kind Medical Clinic, complete with doctors and a pharmacist, had a business licence but was open only two days before RCMP obtained a warrant. Investigators located a marijuana hashish lab […]
Man disappears overnight while out on Slocan Lake; alcohol a factor
A mix of alcohol, wind and rain led to the disappearance of a 56-year-old man on Slocan Lake Wednesday night — with search and rescue finding him Thursday morning. The man had set out on Slocan Lake on Wednesday evening around 7 p.m. from Silverton in a 14-foot aluminum boat with an electric trolling motor. […]
