Crime

A screenshot from a live-streamed video on Kick shows a B.C. teen driving a car into the Burrard Inlet on Monday night (March 4). (@AdinRossEmpire/X)

B.C. teen live-streamed driving car into ocean on apparent paid dare: police

Port Moody Police considering charges of mischief and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle

A screenshot from a live-streamed video on Kick shows a B.C. teen driving a car into the Burrard Inlet on Monday night (March 4). (@AdinRossEmpire/X)
The House of Comedy in New Westminster was set to host a set by Danger Cats Comedy on March 24, but the show has since been cancelled after people discovered the comedy group was selling merchandise making light of serial killer Robert Pickton’s murders. (Screenshot/GoogleMaps)

B.C. comedy show cancelled following anger over Robert Pickton merch

Danger Cats Comedy made light of serial killer’s victims in T-shirts sold ahead of New West show

The House of Comedy in New Westminster was set to host a set by Danger Cats Comedy on March 24, but the show has since been cancelled after people discovered the comedy group was selling merchandise making light of serial killer Robert Pickton’s murders. (Screenshot/GoogleMaps)
Convicted sex offender Skylar Wayne Pelletier, 24, is set to be released in Vancouver under a five-year supervision order. Vancouver police warned the public on Feb. 26, 2024 that Pelletier poses a risk to women in the community. (VPD handout)

Convicted sex offender to be released in Vancouver, police warn

Skylar Wayne Pelletier, 24, poses a risk to women in the community, Vancouver police say

Convicted sex offender Skylar Wayne Pelletier, 24, is set to be released in Vancouver under a five-year supervision order. Vancouver police warned the public on Feb. 26, 2024 that Pelletier poses a risk to women in the community. (VPD handout)
Former attorney-general Wally Oppal headed Missing Women Commission of Inquiry in wake of the Robert Pickton trial. A comedy group known as Danger Cats is now facing criticism for selling merchandise featuring Pickton and Premier David Eby has called on the group to apologize. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)

B.C. premier calls on comedy group to apologize to families of Pickton victims

David Eby calls merchandise depicting Robert Pickton a ‘sad attempt at humour’

Former attorney-general Wally Oppal headed Missing Women Commission of Inquiry in wake of the Robert Pickton trial. A comedy group known as Danger Cats is now facing criticism for selling merchandise featuring Pickton and Premier David Eby has called on the group to apologize. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck)
A Vancouver Police Department patch is seen on an officer's uniform in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver on January 9, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Man facing 19 charges tied to violent after-hours Vancouver nightclub robbery

Police say staff were confined and threatened with weapons as $25K stolen

A Vancouver Police Department patch is seen on an officer's uniform in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver on January 9, 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
Pilots taxi a WestJet Boeing 737-700 aircraft to the runway for departure from Vancouver International Airport, in Richmond, B.C., on Friday, May 19, 2023. A flight from Vancouver to Toronto made an unscheduled stop after a passenger attempted to open a door. WestJet says in an email that Flight 710 diverted to Winnipeg after the incident on Friday.;THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Victoria teen charged after trying to open airplane door mid-flight

RCMP say the 18-year-old was onboard a flight from Vancouver to Toronto on Friday

Pilots taxi a WestJet Boeing 737-700 aircraft to the runway for departure from Vancouver International Airport, in Richmond, B.C., on Friday, May 19, 2023. A flight from Vancouver to Toronto made an unscheduled stop after a passenger attempted to open a door. WestJet says in an email that Flight 710 diverted to Winnipeg after the incident on Friday.;THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
A lawyer walks past the courthouse in Montreal, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

Fake lawyers scamming immigrants, Bar of Montreal warns

Fraudsters charging huge amounts for meagre services

A lawyer walks past the courthouse in Montreal, Wednesday, July 12, 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi
Taylor Swift embraces Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) after the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game against the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, in Las Vegas. The Kansas City Chiefs won 25-22 against the San Francisco 49ers. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Taylor Swift gives $100,000 to the family of the woman killed in the Chiefs parade shooting

Taylor Swift donated $100,000 to the family of Lisa Lopez-Galvan, the woman…

Taylor Swift embraces Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce (87) after the NFL Super Bowl 58 football game against the San Francisco 49ers, Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024, in Las Vegas. The Kansas City Chiefs won 25-22 against the San Francisco 49ers. (AP Photo/John Locher)
North Vancouver RCMP say a nuclear soil moisture density gauge was inside a vehicle stolen Feb. 13, 2024, and that it may pose a risk to the thief. (North Vancouver RCMP handout)

Thief takes off with car, with radioactive surprise inside: B.C. RCMP

North Vancouver RCMP searching for nuclear gauge stolen alongside vehicle Tuesday

North Vancouver RCMP say a nuclear soil moisture density gauge was inside a vehicle stolen Feb. 13, 2024, and that it may pose a risk to the thief. (North Vancouver RCMP handout)
Items recently seized during an investigation led by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit included contraband tobacco and alcohol, drugs, 32 guns, and eight vehicles. (CFSEU photo)

Police record largest tobacco bust in B.C. history, valued at $11M

CFSEU executes search warrants in Langley, Abbotsford, Surrey and Victoria

Items recently seized during an investigation led by the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit included contraband tobacco and alcohol, drugs, 32 guns, and eight vehicles. (CFSEU photo)
Insp. Tim Arseneault, operations officer, RCMP major crime services speaks to the media about an ongoing investigation in Winnipeg on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. RCMP say they are investigating the suspicious deaths of three children and two women in southern Manitoba. THE CANADIAN PRESS / David Lipnowski

Manitoba RCMP say 3 children and 2 women dead, man in custody

Police say circumstances of deaths are separate but connected

Insp. Tim Arseneault, operations officer, RCMP major crime services speaks to the media about an ongoing investigation in Winnipeg on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2024. RCMP say they are investigating the suspicious deaths of three children and two women in southern Manitoba. THE CANADIAN PRESS / David Lipnowski
Ashley Nicole Casimer is wanted by Cranbrook RCMP on a B.C-wide warrant (photo courtesy of Cranbrook RCMP)

Woman who breached release order wanted by Cranbrook RCMP

Ashley Nicole Casimer is wanted breaching her release order

Ashley Nicole Casimer is wanted by Cranbrook RCMP on a B.C-wide warrant (photo courtesy of Cranbrook RCMP)
Some Vancouver businesses are failing to follow a new bylaw restricting bear spray sales, police found during an undercover shopping operation. (Joel Krahn/Black Press Media)

Vancouver businesses selling bear spray illegally, undercover officers find

New bylaw restricts sales to minors and requires spray be locked up, but not all shops complying

Some Vancouver businesses are failing to follow a new bylaw restricting bear spray sales, police found during an undercover shopping operation. (Joel Krahn/Black Press Media)
Johnny Walkus, 36, is wanted Canada-wide after failing to check into his Vancouver halfway house on Feb. 6, 2024. He is currently serving a sentence for for sexual assault, break and enter and uttering threats. (Courtesy of Vancouver Police Department)

UPDATE: B.C. sex offender who skipped halfway house back in custody

Johnny Walkus was released from an Abbotsford-area federal prison on Tuesday

Johnny Walkus, 36, is wanted Canada-wide after failing to check into his Vancouver halfway house on Feb. 6, 2024. He is currently serving a sentence for for sexual assault, break and enter and uttering threats. (Courtesy of Vancouver Police Department)
FILE - Brian Steven Smith sits in a courtroom in Anchorage, Alaska, Oct. 21, 2019. The double murder trial of Smith, a South Africa native accused of killing two Alaska Native women will begin this week, more than four years after a woman provided police with a digital memory card that authorities said contained images and video of one of the killings. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

A woman stole a memory card. The footage is now key to an Alaska murder trial

‘In my movies, everybody always dies,’ says a voice in one of the videos

FILE - Brian Steven Smith sits in a courtroom in Anchorage, Alaska, Oct. 21, 2019. The double murder trial of Smith, a South Africa native accused of killing two Alaska Native women will begin this week, more than four years after a woman provided police with a digital memory card that authorities said contained images and video of one of the killings. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
Ottawa Senators’ Alex Formenton during an NHL hockey game in Philadelphia, Friday, April 29, 2022; New Jersey Devils defenceman Cal Foote before an NHL hockey game in Newark, N.J., Friday, Oct. 27, 2023; New Jersey Devils’ Michael McLeod during an NHL hockey game in Philadelphia, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023; Calgary Flames centre Dillon Dube during an NHL hockey game in Detroit, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023 and Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Carter Hart during an NHL hockey game in Uniondale, N.Y., Saturday, April 3, 2021. The five players from Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team are facing sexual assault charges. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Matt Slocum, Noah K. Murray, Matt Slocum, Paul Sancya, Corey Sipkin

Spotlight on London, Ont. as world junior hockey sex assault case goes to court

Trial set to begin Monday for five players charged with sexually assaulting a woman in 2018

Ottawa Senators’ Alex Formenton during an NHL hockey game in Philadelphia, Friday, April 29, 2022; New Jersey Devils defenceman Cal Foote before an NHL hockey game in Newark, N.J., Friday, Oct. 27, 2023; New Jersey Devils’ Michael McLeod during an NHL hockey game in Philadelphia, Thursday, Nov. 30, 2023; Calgary Flames centre Dillon Dube during an NHL hockey game in Detroit, Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023 and Philadelphia Flyers goaltender Carter Hart during an NHL hockey game in Uniondale, N.Y., Saturday, April 3, 2021. The five players from Canada’s 2018 world junior hockey team are facing sexual assault charges. THE CANADIAN PRESS/AP-Matt Slocum, Noah K. Murray, Matt Slocum, Paul Sancya, Corey Sipkin
B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix pauses while responding to questions during a news conference in Vancouver, on Monday, November 7, 2022. British Columbia’s health minister has weighed in on hockey violence, saying the Criminal Code applies both on and off the ice, after an incident in which a player appeared to put a goalie in a chokehold.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Hockey not immune to criminal code Dix says in wake of on-ice violence

Health minister responds to apparent chokehold during junior game in Richmond

B.C. Health Minister Adrian Dix pauses while responding to questions during a news conference in Vancouver, on Monday, November 7, 2022. British Columbia’s health minister has weighed in on hockey violence, saying the Criminal Code applies both on and off the ice, after an incident in which a player appeared to put a goalie in a chokehold.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
A polar bear takes a bath on a sunny spring day at the modern zoological garden ZOOM in Gelsenkirchen, Germany Thursday, April 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Massive stuffed polar bear swiped from Alberta resort

500-pound bruin disappeared from the Lily Lake Resort north of Edmonton

A polar bear takes a bath on a sunny spring day at the modern zoological garden ZOOM in Gelsenkirchen, Germany Thursday, April 6, 2023. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
Elisha Bonnis sits in a treed area on her sister’s property on the Sunshine Coast on Nov. 29, 2023. She says it is one spot where she is able to find some peace. (Jane Skrypnek/Black Press Media)

She sought justice for sexual assault. B.C.’s judge shortage became her battle.

Delays in civil justice system forcing one woman to go one-on-one against the man she says raped her

Elisha Bonnis sits in a treed area on her sister’s property on the Sunshine Coast on Nov. 29, 2023. She says it is one spot where she is able to find some peace. (Jane Skrypnek/Black Press Media)
A man was taken into custody after a break-and-enter in Hatzic last weekend. /Mission RCMP Photo

Stolen items later returned with apology after B.C. break-in

Mission RCMP take one man into custody and seize vehicle associated with Hatzic break-and-enter

A man was taken into custody after a break-and-enter in Hatzic last weekend. /Mission RCMP Photo