RCMP launch new national marijuana grow strategy
The RCMP is now publishing online the addresses of homes where marijuana grow-ops and other drug production operations were found — with one West Kootenay address already on the list. The new page on the RCMP’s website is part of a new effort by police to target marijuana grow-ops and the organized crime gangs behind […]
Nelson RCMP seize second drug-smuggling helicopter
Nelson RCMP Border Integrity Program officers were instrumental in seizing another helicopter they say was used to smuggle drugs between the U.S. and Canada. A Bell 206 helicopter police say was being used to smuggling cocaine from Canada into the U.S. was seized by RCMP from Spallumcheen, about five hours north of Nelson in the […]
Guns, booze, and lingerie: Tales from the US-Canada frontier
Rolling up to the border, fumbling for the passport, stop-go-stop-go, turn off the radio, turn off the engine, the steely eye contact, skill testing questions, drugs no, guns no, criminal record no, sausage. What? Umm, I don’t think so, I mean no… more steely eye contact. Border crossing can get the heart pumping. No matter […]
RCMP: Escaped convict arrested at Christina Lake
Escaped prisoner Dennis Haines was arrested Sunday night when police responded to a call about an unconscious man on the side of the highway in Christina Lake. Haines, 38, who walked away from a work detail camp near Jasper, Alberta on Sept. 27, was serving a sentence for nine counts of armed robbery in […]
No elevator? No problem: third floor tirade lands man in jail
A man under the influence of street drugs took to wrecking his apartment Monday evening and throwing furniture, appliances and other items through his closed third-floor windows down onto the roadway below. “Fortunately no one was standing below the windows when the tirade began, and no injuries were reported,” said NPD Sgt. Steve Bank. When […]
Update: names released but two men still unresponsive from crash near Nakusp
Police are unable to interview either man involved in a single-vehicle collision Saturday morning near Nakusp, say police. Const. Mark Macaulay of the Nakusp RCMP said the two men — including a 37-year-old man from Trail — remain in serious condition at Vancouver General Hospital. “(We) are unable to interview either individual at this time due […]
Kelowna father denies killing college student
Although the man accused of killing former L.V. Rogers graduate Jennifer Cusworth admits he was at the same party as her almost 20 years ago, he denied involvement in her murder, the CBC’s Brady Strachan reported. Father of four Neil Snelson insisted in court Tuesday he was not part of the murder of 19-year-old Cusworth, […]
New pot laws could overwhelm B.C. jails
The CBC is reporting that new proposed changes to minimum sentences in the “tough on crime” legislation will overfill the province’s already crowded jails. If passed, the federal government’s new law will mean a six-month minimum sentence for anyone convicted of growing between six and 200 cannabis plants. Growing more than 200 to 500 plants […]
RCMP: Grand Forks men part of smuggling arrests
Two Grand Forks men, aged 31 and 40, were arrested along with six other men when the RCMP Integrated Border Enforcement Team (IBET) seized approximately 119 pounds of marijuana en route to the United States. The smuggling incident was intercepted on Wednesday, Sept. 21 when the team stopped a 2004 Ford F150 white pick-up […]
Combined air effort by police brings down marijuana grow operation on the ground
Air services and the RCMP auxiliary constable program combined forces to bust a marijuana grow operation in Slocan Wednesday. Slocan Lake RCMP said an auxiliary constable had flown the area in the RCMP helicopter from the Southeast District Air Services Program several months ago, spotting and recording the GPS coordinates of a number of outdoor […]
