Tag Archives: Crime & Courts
Year in Review: Jaskirat Sidhu receives eight-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to Humboldt Broncos bus crash
northeastNOW is taking a look back at the biggest and most interesting stories of 2019, as selected by our newsroom: It was a case many Canadians had their eyes on, and it wrapped up in early 2019. Ja...
Dec 30, 2019 Jaskirat Singh Sidhu. (Aaron Schulze/northeastNOW Staff)
Boxing Day murder suspect makes first court appearance
The man charged in connection to a violent incident at Wahpeton Dakota Nation on Boxing Day fought back tears as he made his first court appearance Monday morning at Prince Albert Provincial Court. Na...
Dec 30, 2019 Prince Albert Provincial Court. (file photo/paNOW Staff)
Year in review: City pursues back alley bylaw
Prince Albert city council pressed ahead on a proposed controversial bylaw this year. Despite legal concerns, the city's politicians made some headway on a potential curfew restricting access to publi...
Dec 29, 2019 According to city staff, up to half of Prince Albert properties abut onto a back alley. (Alison Sandstrom/paNOW Staff)
19-year-old freezes, dies after crash near Warman
A 19-year-old man died after being found out in the cold after a single-vehicle crash on Highway 11 Thursday near Warman.RCMP were called shortly after 4 a.m. with multiple reports of a man walking in...
Dec 27, 2019 (File photo/CKOM News Staff)
Murder investigation at Wahpeton
A 19-year-old man faces several charges including second degree murder, aggravated assault, and sexual assault, in connection to an incident early Thursday morning on the Wahpeton Dakota First Nation ...
Dec 27, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
"A year of change": P.A. police chief reflects on 2019
Prince Albert's Police Chief is the first to admit there were a number of highlights and challenges for his staff in 2019. Among the biggest and obvious changes for Bergen himself was settling into th...
Dec 26, 2019 Prince Albert Police Chief Jon Bergen. (Nigel Maxwel/ paNOW Staff)
Police identify body found north of La Ronge
The body of a woman found on Highway 102 north of La Ronge has been identified as 28-year old Sheena Marie Billette.Billette, who police said is from La Ronge, was discovered by a motorist early Monda...
Dec 24, 2019 The body of Sheena Marie Billette, 28, was found on Hwy 102 north of La Ronge Monday morning. ('Sheena Marie/Facebook)
Woman enters guilty plea after running from police
Details of how a young woman was able to escape police custody last month were laid out in a Prince Albert courtroom Monday morning.Courtney Sinclair, 23, had been at Victoria Hospital at the time of ...
Dec 23, 2019 (File photo/paNOW Staff)
Year in Review: The city's six homicide investigations
Prince Albert's first homicide victim of 2019, was described by people close to him as a talented cook and a family man.Cody McAdam, 27, was stabbed early in the morning of Feb. 9. According to police...
Dec 23, 2019 (File photo/ paNOW Staff)
Man remains at large after officer dragged by vehicle
An RCMP constable from the La Loche detachment suffered injuries after being dragged by a vehicle on Hwy 155 south of La Loche. It happened Saturday night around 8 p.m. The officer was speaking with t...
Dec 23, 2019 Colin Lemaigre remains at large. (submitted photo/RCMP)
