Crime

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Pilfering starts just 40 minutes after new B.C. grocery store’s opening

12 shoplifting reports in first 3 days for new Prince George Buy-Low Foods

 

A security agent walks alongside a barrier surrounding Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, July 5, 2023, in Parkland, Fla. Demolition of the building where 17 people died in the 2018 Parkland school shooting is set to begin, as crews will begin tearing down the three-story building at the high school on Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell, File)

Demolition of the Parkland classroom building where 17 died in 2018 shooting is set to begin

A crew is scheduled Friday to begin tearing down the three-story classroom…

 

Police at the Savages Outlaw Motorcycle Gang’s Langford clubhouse on Jan. 31. (Photo courtesy RCMP)

B.C. moves to seize Victoria-area properties linked to Savages motorcycle club

Forfeiture claim includes 2 homes, a truck and roughly $47,000 in cash forfeited to the province

  • May 31, 2024

 

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court during jury deliberations in his criminal hush money trial in New York, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)

Guilty: Trump becomes first former US president convicted of felony crimes

Donald Trump became the first former American president to be convicted of…

Former President Donald Trump appears at Manhattan criminal court during jury deliberations in his criminal hush money trial in New York, Thursday, May 30, 2024. (Michael M. Santiago/Pool Photo via AP)
District 1881 restaurant The Offy, in downtown Chilliwack, where sous-chef Brad Koehler had a bag with various chef's knives and other tools stolen following his shift on Sunday, May 26 (Stefan Luciani/Chilliwack Progress)

‘Humanity wins’: support takes edge off for B.C. chef robbed of prize knives

Stolen Chilliwack sous-chef’s bag contained tools obtained over years of work

District 1881 restaurant The Offy, in downtown Chilliwack, where sous-chef Brad Koehler had a bag with various chef's knives and other tools stolen following his shift on Sunday, May 26 (Stefan Luciani/Chilliwack Progress)
Hayden Chokrev-Evans was given three years and eight months for a violent sexual assault that happened in a CFB Esquimalt dorm room. (Black Press file photo)

Man given over 3 years for violent sexual assault at CFB Esquimalt dorm

Hayden Chokrev-Evans convicted for viciously beating and having forced intercourse with woman in 2022

  • May 30, 2024
Hayden Chokrev-Evans was given three years and eight months for a violent sexual assault that happened in a CFB Esquimalt dorm room. (Black Press file photo)
Greg Martel is accused of defrauding investors of roughly $270 million in a massive Ponzi scheme. His whereabouts are currently unknown. (Screenshot courtesy Vimeo)

Trustee says Victoria mortgage broker Greg Martel ran ‘massive Ponzi scheme’

Bankruptcy court application shows 930 creditors have $317 million in claims against Martel’s company

  • May 29, 2024
Greg Martel is accused of defrauding investors of roughly $270 million in a massive Ponzi scheme. His whereabouts are currently unknown. (Screenshot courtesy Vimeo)
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police “E” Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. Police in northern British Columbia say human remains found along a river near the community of Dawson Creek this month belong to a woman who had been missing for nearly six months, one of four people to vanish from the area over the last year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Dawson Creek remains identified as B.C. woman who went missing 6 months ago

Renee Didier one of 4 people reported missing from the community over the past year

The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police “E” Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C., on Friday April 13, 2018. Police in northern British Columbia say human remains found along a river near the community of Dawson Creek this month belong to a woman who had been missing for nearly six months, one of four people to vanish from the area over the last year. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Anne Tolmie says her home was broken into six times while she was in the hospital. (Mark Page/News Staff)

Neighbours rally after thieves hit hospitalized B.C. senior’s home 6 times

Neighbours join to help clean and secure house, owner critical of police response

  • May 29, 2024
Anne Tolmie says her home was broken into six times while she was in the hospital. (Mark Page/News Staff)
The Law Courts building, which is home to B.C. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, is seen in Vancouver, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Man who broke into B.C. home, sexually assaulted woman sentenced to 5 years

Man got caught 14 years after offence after providing his DNA for a separate conviction

The Law Courts building, which is home to B.C. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, is seen in Vancouver, on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
FILE - Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 4 2022. Weinstein is expected to return to a New York court as he faces a retrial of his landmark #MeToo-era rape case in a matter of months. The fallen movie mogul has a court hearing Wednesday, May 29, 2024 to address issues related to the retrial, which is slated for sometime after Labor Day. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, file)

Harvey Weinstein to appear before judge in same courthouse where Trump is on trial

Harvey Weinstein is expected to appear before a judge Wednesday afternoon in…

FILE - Former film producer Harvey Weinstein appears in court at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in Los Angeles, Calif., on Oct. 4 2022. Weinstein is expected to return to a New York court as he faces a retrial of his landmark #MeToo-era rape case in a matter of months. The fallen movie mogul has a court hearing Wednesday, May 29, 2024 to address issues related to the retrial, which is slated for sometime after Labor Day. (Etienne Laurent/Pool Photo via AP, file)
Madison Scott has been one of the region’s missing people featured on Tears to Hope relay signs over the years. Missing since 2011, her remains were found this May near her hometown of Vanderhoof. (File photo)

RCMP renew plea in B.C.’s Madison Scott case 1 year after remains found

Madison Scott disappeared in 2011 while celebrating a friend’s birthday at Hogsback Lake

Madison Scott has been one of the region’s missing people featured on Tears to Hope relay signs over the years. Missing since 2011, her remains were found this May near her hometown of Vanderhoof. (File photo)
Quebec provincial police are investigating after an entire herd of about 75 Black Angus cattle were allegedly stolen in the Eastern Townships region last week. A Surete du Quebec emblem is seen on an officer’s uniform in Montreal, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

Cattle rustlers make off with entire herd of Quebec cows

About $200,000 worth of livestock represents a good portion of his savings and four years of work

Quebec provincial police are investigating after an entire herd of about 75 Black Angus cattle were allegedly stolen in the Eastern Townships region last week. A Surete du Quebec emblem is seen on an officer’s uniform in Montreal, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
The late Leeland Alexander seen here as part of the bike trail building crew at Xat’sull First Nation. (Photo submitted)

Sister seeks justice in stabbing death of her brother in Lillooet

Leeland Alexander was from Xat’sull First Nations

The late Leeland Alexander seen here as part of the bike trail building crew at Xat’sull First Nation. (Photo submitted)
Wade Cudmore seen here with his mom Kathy Richardson, will stand trial in Kelowna for the murders of the Fryer brothers found dead in Naramata in May 2021. Cudmore’s mom was found murdered in her home in June 2021. (Facebook)

Naramata murder trial on schedule to begin in Vancouver

Wade Cudmore is charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the death of the Fryer brothers

Wade Cudmore seen here with his mom Kathy Richardson, will stand trial in Kelowna for the murders of the Fryer brothers found dead in Naramata in May 2021. Cudmore’s mom was found murdered in her home in June 2021. (Facebook)
FILE - Sean “Diddy” Combs arrives at the LA Premiere of “The Four: Battle For Stardom” at the CBS Radford Studio Center on May 30, 2018, in Los Angeles. Newly released video Friday, May 17, 2024, appears to show Combs beating his former singing protege and girlfriend Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Diddy admits beating ex-girlfriend Cassie, says he’s sorry, calls his actions ‘inexcusable’

Sean “Diddy” Combs admitted that he beat his ex-girlfriend Cassie in a…

  • May 21, 2024
FILE - Sean “Diddy” Combs arrives at the LA Premiere of “The Four: Battle For Stardom” at the CBS Radford Studio Center on May 30, 2018, in Los Angeles. Newly released video Friday, May 17, 2024, appears to show Combs beating his former singing protege and girlfriend Cassie in a Los Angeles hotel in 2016. (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)
Michael Cohen testifies on the witness stand during cross examination at Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

What we’ve learned so far in the Trump hush money trial

Trump is charged with 34 counts of falsifying business records

Michael Cohen testifies on the witness stand during cross examination at Donald Trump’s hush money trial in Manhattan criminal court, Thursday, May 16, 2024, in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)
Varinder Singh Deo was sentenced on Nov. 30, 2023 to four years in jail for shooting a sex worker in the back. Here, the Law Courts building, which is home to B.C. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, is seen in Vancouver, on November 23, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

B.C. man gets 4 years for shooting sex worker while high on his birthday

Varinder Singh Deo began arguing with escort after saying she didn’t look like online photo

Varinder Singh Deo was sentenced on Nov. 30, 2023 to four years in jail for shooting a sex worker in the back. Here, the Law Courts building, which is home to B.C. Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal, is seen in Vancouver, on November 23, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
The B.C. Prosecution Service has stayed a charge against a Prince George Mountie accused of attempting to obstruct justice. (Black Press Media file photo)

Obstruction charge stayed against B.C. cop linked to Indigenous man’s death

Three out of five Prince George Mounties initially charged no longer facing trial

The B.C. Prosecution Service has stayed a charge against a Prince George Mountie accused of attempting to obstruct justice. (Black Press Media file photo)
FILE - Actor Steve Buscemi attends the premiere of “The Dead Don’t Die” at the Museum of Modern Art, June 10, 2019, in New York. Buscemi was punched in the face by a random attacker on a New York City street, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, according to police and his publicist. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)

Actor Steve Buscemi is OK after being punched in the face in New York City

Actor Steve Buscemi is OK after being punched in the face in New York City

FILE - Actor Steve Buscemi attends the premiere of “The Dead Don’t Die” at the Museum of Modern Art, June 10, 2019, in New York. Buscemi was punched in the face by a random attacker on a New York City street, Wednesday, May 8, 2024, according to police and his publicist. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP, File)