Tag Archives: Crime & Courts
‘I’ll never forgive him for doing any of that’: La Loche shooting victim
A sense of relief for many accompanied Thursday's news that the Supreme Court of Canada would not hear an appeal from a young offender who was sentenced as an adult in a mass shooting in La Loche.Rand...
Apr 16, 2020 Police outside the Dene High School building in La Loche, Sask. following a shooting in January 2016. (Bryn Levy/650 CKOM)
Police seek public's help after weekend robbery
The Prince Albert Police Service is asking for the public's assistance in identifying a suspect following a robbery on Sunday.According to a media release, the man seen in the surveillance video photo...
Apr 16, 2020 Surveillance video photo of the suspect. (Submitted /Prince Albert Police Service)
Police investigating toddler's death as homicide
Investigators with the Prince Albert Police Service have determined a three-year-old girl's death on April 9 was a homicide. The determination was made after an autopsy conducted yesterday. Police say...
Apr 15, 2020 Flowers and toys have been left outside a home where the toddler was initially found. (Michael Joel-Hanson/ paNOW Staff)
Drug trafficker to remain behind bars for another two years
One of four people arrested last summer in connection to a drug bust in Prince Albert, has been sentenced.Steven Geisler, 28, appeared via video Wednesday morning at Prince Albert Provincial Court. Th...
Apr 15, 2020 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Triple homicide case adjourned, defence awaits evidence report
A man accused of murdering his parents and young son was not present in person or via video, when the case was discussed Wednesday morning at Prince Albert Provincial Court.Nathaniel Carrier's attenda...
Apr 15, 2020 Nathaniel Carrier faces three counts of first degree murder and one count of attempted murder. (Facebook)
Police investigating toddler's death
Police are investigating after a three-year-old girl died this afternoon. Members of the Prince Albert Police Service were called to a home on the 800 block of 17th Street West last night. Officers as...
Apr 09, 2020 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Union requests better distancing practices and more testing at provincial correctional centres
As of Thursday there have been six confirmed cases of COVID-19 at the province's correctional centres, all traced back to staff members. No inmates have been infected.According to a statement from the...
Apr 09, 2020 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Lawyers, advocate call for inmate release before COVID-19 spreads
The number COVID-19 cases in prisons is rising, prompting Canada's criminal lawyers and an inmate advocacy group to call on the federal and provincial governments to reduce the number of peo...
Apr 09, 2020
Stolen semi-truck, loaded with canola, goes viral on social media
The President of the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalites (SARM) says a story about a stolen semi-truck loaded with canola, speaks to the level of crime happening in rural Saskatchewan.Ray ...
Apr 08, 2020 A photo of this truck, stolen near Leask. (Facebook)
Taber man charged after licking products in store as part of 'COVID Challenge'
TABER, Alta. - A man from southern Alberta has been charged with mischief after police say he participated in an online prank related to the COVID-19 pandemic.Police in Taber say the man allegedly tam...
Apr 08, 2020
