Tag Archives: Crime & Courts
Man involved in home invasion receives jail sentence
A man who was found lurking around a Prince Albert couple's bedroom when they awoke, has received a two-year jail sentence.Frank Ballantyne, 20, was sentenced Tuesday at Court of Queen's Bench in Prin...
Jul 24, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Police seek B.C. murder suspects in swamp, bush, bugs of northern Manitoba
The deputy mayor of a remote northern Manitoba town says residents are locking their doors earlier than usual after word of a police manhunt in the area for two suspects in the deaths o...
Jul 24, 2019
'I forgive you for murdering my son,' mother of man killed in prison riot says at sentence hearing
Evelyn Bird fought back tears as she faced her son's killer at Prince Albert Court of Queen's Bench, and talked about how her son's death had deeply impacted her family. Bird read a victim impact stat...
Jul 23, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Violent crime up in Prince Albert but property crimes dropping, says new report
The 2018 Crime Statistics and Crime Severity Index (CSI) report, released by Statistic Canada this week, offers a mixed bag of news for Prince Albert.In terms of its overall crime severity index from ...
Jul 23, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Shots fired at house on Sturgeon Lake First Nation
The Prince Albert RCMP has confirmed they are investigating a shooting on the Sturgeon Lake First Nation.Early Saturday morning, shots were fired at a house. There were no injuries and there have been...
Jul 22, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Crime rate rose in 2018 but country still safer than a decade ago
OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's crime rate ticked up again in 2018, for a fourth year in a row, though it was still lower than it was a decade ago.The severity of crime also rose by two ...
Jul 22, 2019
Accused in manslaughter case makes first appearance in provincial court
A man from Sturgeon Lake First Nation made his first appearance in Prince Albert Provincial Court on Friday, after being charged with manslaughter.Forty-year-old Ryan Kyle Daniels is charged with mans...
Jul 19, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Four arrested after ISET investigation
An investigation by the Integrated Street Enforcement Team (ISET) has led to four people facing a number of weapon and drug-related charges. Police executed search warrants at several addresses in Pri...
Jul 18, 2019 The items seized by ISET. (submitted photo/Prince Albert Police Service)
More drugs seized after police execute search warrant on Prince Albert home
Police arrested two people on drugs charges and one youth for an arson charge in two separate investigations this week. After 9 p.m. Wednesday night, members of the Saskatchewan Combined Forces Specia...
Jul 18, 2019 (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Defence calling no evidence in case of German tourist shot west of Calgary
CALGARY - The defence is calling no evidence on behalf of a youth accused of shooting a German tourist in the head on a highway west of Calgary last summer. The teen from the Stoney Nakoda First ...
Jul 18, 2019
