RCMP: Out-of-towners cause traffic accidents
Several car accidents involving out-of-town drivers occured over the holiday season. The first was on Tuesday, Dec. 27 at 2:37 p.m. when a Ford Explorer being driven by a visiting woman driver rolled three times down an embankment five kilometres east of Christina Lake on Highway 3. The vehicle hit some slush and the...
Interfor fire leaves minor damage
Damage to the Grand Forks sawmill was limited when fire teams quickly contained flames ignited by demolition work on Tuesday, Dec. 20. The fire broke out in the early morning at International Forest Products Ltd. (Interfor), said Blair McGregor, fire chief for the City of Grand Forks. "They were taking out some of the old ...
Premier's open letter about the Vancouver riots
An open letter to British Columbians from Premier ClarkBritish Columbians are understandably embarrassed and disappointed by Wednesday night's activities. It should have been a celebration of the tremendous effort by the Canucks in their playoff run. It turned into a shameful display of behaviour by people bent on violence....
Cocaine bust nets Washington state man 14 years
Fourteen years in prison for trying to import 83 kilograms of cocaine into Canada in the false floor of a minivan was the sentence for a 49-year-old Washington man, Scott Fleming Powers. Powers was sentenced in relation to a joint Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) and RCMP Federal Drug Enforcement investigation resulting...
POLICE: Film crews cause rumours about missing man
Rumours that Owen Rooney’s body had been found are unsubstantiated, says Staff Sergeant Jim Harrison of the Boundary detachment RCMP. Early this week the Sentinel was contacted with the news that missing Australian Rooney had been found after eight months of searching. Harrison squashed these rumours that came from a re-enactment...
Crime down in the Boundary after series of arrests in 2010
Crime rates in the Boundary region are some of the lowest in B.C. said an annual report to city council from the Boundary Detachment of the RCMP. Staff Sergeant Jim Harrison was at Grand Forks council meeting on Tuesday to provide his yearly update on services. Harrison’s report covered off crime rates, staffing levels,...
Third killer granted escorted trips from psychiatric hospital
By: Kim Bolan, Vancouver SunFor the third time in a year, an admitted killer found not criminally responsible for murder has been granted the chance to take escorted trips into the community by the B.C. Review Board.The latest case involves a Lower Mainland man who was found not guilty on February 11, 2011, despite shooting...
RCMP: Distracted drivers targeted
A month of enforcement to support the distracted driving laws took place over February. The West Kootenay area members of the traffic services (three RCMP and three Nelson Police officers) and the Integrated Road Safety Unit participated in the month-long focus.Police issued 82 violations for distracted driving, 132 seat...
RCMP: Search of Grand Forks home yields prescription drugs
Prescription drugs including morphine, oxycodone, and ativan were among the drugs seized at a residence in Grand Forks during the execution of a search warrant. The warrant, issued under the provisions of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act, was initiated in response to complaints and tips from the public.On Feb. 19 members...
Judge upholds government's right to refuse prisoner transfer: West Boundary man remains in US prison
By Derek AbmaPostmedia NewsOTTAWA —A Federal Court judge has upheld the minister of public safety’s right to refuse requests from prisoners being held in other countries to transfer to Canada to serve their sentences.The decision was prompted largely by an application from Perley Holmes, a British Columbia man imprisoned in...
