Paul Rodgers
Cranbrook’s RCMP detachment responded to 138 calls for service throughout the first week of the new year, 11 of which were false alarms or false 911 calls.
Assaults comprised 11 of the calls for service. Five were domestic in nature, three involved assaults where the suspect and victim were familiar, one was an assault on a police officer, one was workplace related and the last involved a man trying to steal a case of beer and then assaulting an employee at a liquor store.
There were an additional 11 calls related to mental health issues. Of these only one involved an apprehension and none of them involved the East Kootenay Regional Hospital.
The three calls pertaining to theft consisted of two instances of shoplifting, one of which was the afore mentioned man who assaulted an employee while attempting to steal beer. This man has been located and is being charged with theft and assault. The third involved theft from mailboxes in a rural area.
There was one break and enter to a business — however the fenced compound broken into on Slater Road appears to have had nothing taken from it.
Two vehicles had their tires slashed and windows smashed out. Suspects were arrested and police executed a search warrant on January 4 at an apartment located at the 2200 block of 12th Street North. Police seized drugs, BB guns, ammunition, prohibited weapons and stolen property.
There was an additional two drug seizures over the past week, both involving marijuana and neither resulting in charges.
There were two cases of impaired driving — both involving alcohol — four collisions in the city, two outside the city and three hit and runs. Two of these took place in parking lots where parked cars were struck and one in which TD Building was struck. A suspect in one of these now faces a charge of failing to remain at the scene of an accident.
