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Glynn Brothen

Glynn Brothen

  • Joined: January 01, 2023
  • Articles: 1329

Kamloops Search and Rescue on standby in search of missing man

KAMLOOPS - Victoria Day was a busy one for Kamloops Search and Rescue as members assisted an injured hiker and remain on standby in search of a missing man. Alan Hobler with the service said the team rescued an injured woman on a trail near Paul Lake. Hobler said the woman slipped on small pebbles...

Suspects cut hole through building but flee empty-handed

KAMLOOPS - Suspected thieves managed to run away from a break-in scene, but did so empty-handed after RCMP officers arrived at the golf shop around 2 a.m. Tuesday morning. Spokesperson Cpl. Cheryl Bush says rural RCMP officers responded to an alarm at the Rivershore Golf Links Golf Shop on April 7. Officers believe the suspects...

UPDATE: Officer charged in jail sex trial acquitted

KAMLOOPS – Charges against a Kamloops RCMP officer were dismissed Thursday morning after a Kamloops Supreme Court Justice determined his conduct during an incident at the detachment four years ago did not constitute a breach of trust. Justice Selwyn Romilly said the matter should have been dealt with in “an RCMP internal investigation, and not...

JAIL SEX TRIAL: Judge will decide if RCMP officer’s actions were criminal

KAMLOOPS – It is up to a Kamloops Supreme Court Justice to determine if a crime was committed in the early morning hours of August 18, 2010 now that submissions from both lawyers have concluded in the trial of an RCMP watch commander. Kenneth Peter Rick Brown was charged with breach of trust after he,...

JAIL SEX TRIAL: ‘It was a very tense and uncomfortable environment:’ guard

KAMLOOPS – A former jail guard told a Kamloops Supreme Courtroom this morning his workplace was like a zoo and there was nothing he could do about separating two female prisoners having sex because there were no empty cells available. David Tompkins was one of the RCMP city cell guards working the early morning hours...

JAIL SEX TRIAL: The one-and-a-half minute party

KAMLOOPS – One of the guards who worked during an August 2010 incident in city cells told a Kamloops Supreme courtroom Friday morning he was frustrated when he did not receive direction on how to split up two female prisoners having sex. Kevin Brumm was a relatively new guard at the Kamloops RCMP city cells,...

RCMP detachment was “dysfunctional” at time of jail sex incident: Retired cop

KAMLOOPS – The first man who internally investigated the RCMP watch commander working the night two women had sex in a jail cell told a Kamloops Supreme Courtroom on Wednesday the officer was untrained in his new role in an office he called “a terrible place to work.” Staff Sgt. Garry Kerr was originally responsible...

JAIL SEX TRIAL: “In hindsight I probably should have stopped it:” Accused

KAMLOOPS – An extensive internal RCMP investigation and eventual trial started when one officer casually told another about “a couple of girls getting it on” in cells; the hope was to share a laugh. But Cpl. Kelly Butler told Const. Evan Elgee she didn’t find his story funny. Instead, she wrote an email to upper...

JAIL SEX TRIAL UPDATE: Officers react to what happened in the cell that night

GRAPHIC CONTENT ADVISORY KAMLOOPS – Video evidence in the jail sex trial concluded Wednesday allowing a Kamloops Supreme Court Justice to see exactly what police officers saw that night in Kamloops city cells—and how officers reacted to it. Cpl. Kenneth Peter "Rick" Brown, an RCMP watch commander, is accused of breaching trust in August of...

JAIL SEX TRIAL UPDATE: Court examines video evidence

KAMLOOPS – A now-retired RCMP corporal took the stand in Kamloops Supreme Court Tuesday afternoon to describe one of his last investigations—of his friends and co-workers accused of breaching trust as a police officer. Several officers chose to watch two drunk female prisoners have sex rather than intervene in the early morning hours of August...

RCMP Corporal accused in Kamloops jail cell sex scandal to stand trial next week

KAMLOOPS – A four-year-old case evolving from the Kamloops RCMP jail cell sex scandal will finally get underway in Supreme Court next week after pre-trial arguments wrapped Thursday morning. Cpl. Kenneth Peter Rick Brown is the last of the four participants originally accused of failing to intervene on an August evening in 2010 when two...