Jessica Wallace

KAMLOOPS - Jury selection began today for a Kamloops man charged with second degree murder. Torbin Alec faces the murder charge following the death of a Tk'emlups Indian Band member stabbed to death at a party downtown in July 2012. RCMP and emergency services were called to the Columbia Street home around 3:30 a.m. on...

KAMLOOPS - A vehicle that fled from police last night was stopped abruptly in Sahali by a spike belt that took out three tires. Kamloops RCMP trapped a 24-year-old male who was arrested last night in relation to impaired driving related charges after a vehicle fled multiple times from police. The first flee came after...

KAMLOOPS - The other half of a pair of identity thieves busted in June near Barriere with a large quantity of stolen goods was sentenced to house arrest yesterday in B.C. Supreme Court. Matthew Arthur Stuthard was brought in to sit next to his common law partner and criminal accomplice, Mandy Burton, to deal with...

KAMLOOPS - Changes have been ordered following a review of the local prison that turned up multiple health and safety breaches. Three senior WorkSafe B.C. inspectors completed a compliance assessment of the Kamloops Regional Correctional Centre from Sept. 23 to 26, as part of a review of the nine jails in the province. A report...

KAMLOOPS - A man was sentenced to 18 months in prison yesterday for inappropriate sexual activity with two girls half his age. Adrian Peters was sentenced in Kamloops provincial court for charges of sexual assault and sexual interference of a person under 16 for events dating back to 2011 in Kamloops. According to the Crown,...

KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops man who admitted to killing his father won't be granted parole from his life sentence in jail for 12 years. Jaipreet Singh Toor, 46, sat with his head down for much of his sentencing today after pleading guilty to second degree murder in September. The plea came after he stabbed his...

KAMLOOPS - RCMP are recommending multiple charges after one man forced another into a home with the use of weapons earlier today. Police responded to reports at a residence on Shuswap Road where one man allegedly had a knife and club and forced another man into the residence. A 40-year-old man was taken into police...

KAMLOOPS - A 29-year-old identity thief caught with over 1,000 illegal identity cards in the summer was handed three years in prison today in Kamloops Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justice Sheri Donegan said today that Matthew Arthur Stuthard has an 'incredible criminal record' including another conviction for identity theft in 2010 that sent him to...

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops' biggest and busiest mall has been a little emptier than usual and some are starting to worry about their businesses. Stop for a snack and you'll notice a large plot remains vacant, formerly home to Baskin Robbins in the food court. Not too far away, former Extreme Pita also sits empty. It's...

KAMLOOPS - An Alberta man was arrested yesterday after an 'indecent act' at an elementary school yesterday morning. Around 11:30 a.m., Kamloops RCMP was called after a man was spotted near Lloyd George School with his pants pulled down in a vehicle near the school. While the man did not make any contact with students,...

KAMLOOPS - A Sharpe Lake rancher who was sentenced earlier this month for killing her neighbour's dog asked the court today for three more months to apologize to her neighbour. Ruth Robinson was ordered to do so as part of the conditions set out in her conditional discharge after she was convicted for one count...

KAMLOOPS - The teen responsible for putting a Mackenzie man in hospital with an induced coma has pleaded guilty to multiple charges. The 15-year-old, who cannot be named under the Canadian Youth Criminal Justice Act, pleaded guilty to several charges including possession of a dangerous weapon, aggravated assault, mischief and uttering threats. The charges came...

KAMLOOPS - A 62-year-old Clearwater man has been handed jail-time after wandering around drunk and naked in public one too many times. "This is the tenth time you've been before the courts for these types of offences," said Kamloops Provincial Court judge Chris Cleaveley. Michael Goller pleaded guilty yesterday to four counts of nudity in...

KAMLOOPS - A 50-year-old Kamloops woman avoided jail-time today after defrauding a Kamloops business while she was employed as the company's bookkeeper. Lynn Christine Stalzer pleaded guilty today to fraud under $5,000 for two incidents in 2011 while working for Trick Transport in Kamloops. Crown prosecutor Chris Balison said a police investigation into the fraud...

KAMLOOPS - One man is dead after a single vehicle collision near Inks Lake Road last night. Kamloops RCMP responded to an accident on Highway 5 around 11:30 p.m. and a found an overturned vehicle. The vehcle veered from the road and went over an embankment, killing one man. The investigation is ongoing and is...

KAMLOOPS - Today is a better day for the New Life Mission. Outreach Centre manager Terry Butcher is confident power will be restored to Thrift City today, allowing restoration to begin following a recent bout of damages to the non-profit property. "Really none of the restoration or cleanup (can be done) until the power can...

911 CALL FROM MURDERER: "THIS HAPPENED JUST BECAUSE I... WANTED IT TO." KAMLOOPS - A judge has accepted the guilty plea of a Kamloops man who stabbed his father 31 times in a fit of rage over money. But before Jaipreet Toor, 46, could plead guilty to killing his 79-year-old father in March 2012, he...

KAMLOOPS - A Supreme Court judge must decide whether to accept a guilty plea by a man accused of killing his father last year in Kamloops. "It's a significant, significant step you're taking," said Justice Sheri Donegan. "This is one of the most significant offences in the Criminal Code." Jaipreet Toor is charged with one...

KAMLOOPS - A Chase man who claimed to be providing a 'service' to the economy as a drug dealer was sentenced to 10 months in jail today in Kamloops Supreme Court. "The accused has it wrong when he dismisses his trafficking," said B.C. Supreme Court Justice John Steeves. Ernest Klassen, 60, was convicted by Steeves...

KAMLOOPS - The manager of a downtown thrift shop is saying the store will be closed for at least a week after a fire that broke out this morning. "It's definitely a big hit on us, we are just a non-profit," said Regan Wilson, store manager of Thrift City on Seymour Street. Kamloops Fire and...

KAMLOOPS - TRU students were welcomed back to school this week with a colourful addition to one campus street. TRU's Students' Union unveiled the first rainbow crosswalk in Interior B.C. in front of the Old Main building. "TRUSU is excited to have a permanent symbol of LGBTQ pride on campus," LGBTQ representative for the union...

KAMLOOPS - ASK Wellness is reporting five heroin overdoses — including one fatality — in the last 24 hours in Kamloops. This after a recent warning in Vancouver about a bad batch of the drug and one in Kamloops when summer hit. "The word on the street is that there is a batch in town that is...

KAMLOOPS - Police are searching for a man who failed to show up for his sentencing hearing for multiple drug-related charges this week. Shane Cameron, 33, was expected to be sentenced yesterday for multiple files and charges including: four counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, possession of a controlled substance, two counts of...