Assault
Harassed Vernon food truck vendor says enough is enough
VERNON - Vernon food truck vendor Dave Braybrook had to call the cops three times in one day this week — and now he's speaking out. The friendly Irishman and owner of the Sizzlin’ Shamrock hot dog stand says he’s had problems with transients disrupting business ever since he set up on the sidewalk at...
Concerns growing over peace officer assaults in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - Police and bylaw staff are concerned given the recent spike in assaults against peace officers in Kamloops. The city's community safety and enforcement manager Jon Wilson says in the last month there’s been two serious incidents. A bylaw officer was attacked while another was seriously threatened. One of the incidents involved a weapon,...
Woman arrested after robbery with fake firearm in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - A woman has been arrested after using an imitation gun during a North Shore robbery yesterday night. The woman produced the fake firearm and demanded cash near the Ford dealership on Halston Avenue around 10 p.m., Oct. 14. The 53-year-old male victim was assaulted during the robbery, according to a police news release....
Half-naked man assaults woman walking to work in Rutland
KELOWNA - Police need help identifying a half-naked man who grabbed the buttocks of a 24-year-old Kelowna woman on her way to work. The woman was walking near the intersection of Mills Road and Highway 33 in Rutland just before 7 a.m. today, Oct. 14, when a man wearing nothing below the waist grabbed her...
Young Kelowna man sentenced for assaulting teenaged girl
Kelowna – A 21-year-old Kelowna man has been sentenced on a charge of assault for pushing the head of a 13-year-old girl towards his crotch. Zachary Xavier Heise, now 21, was with three friends - two girls, aged 13 and 14, and a boy, 16 - in Vernon in May 2013. Heise was significantly older...
Unprovoked assault by career criminal gets federal time
PENTICTON - A Penticton man will do some serious jail time for a vicious, unprovoked attack that left his victim scarred for life. John Marshall Szanto, who appeared in Penticton Provincial Court today, Sept. 24, will serve three years for the assault, which took place on March 14 this year. Crown Prosecutor John Swanson recounted...
Help identify these persons of interest in Kamloops assault case
KAMLOOPS - The Kamloops RCMP need the public’s help to identify three suspects involved in an assault back in January. The assault occurred in the 500-block of Victoria Street, Jan. 10, 2015. Police were called to the area for a report of a male lying on the ground. RCMP discovered the victim had been assaulted...
Abusive husband sentenced to jail for assaulting, injuring wife
"I'M GOING TO KILL YOU AND I'M GOING TO BE SMILING AS YOU TAKE YOUR LAST BREATH." KELOWNA – A local man with a history of physically abusing his wife was sentenced to 15 months in jail for an assault that left her with a cut lip, bruises and abrasions on her body. On March...
Decision on Kelowna Mountie accused of assault expected in September
LANGUAGE ADVISORY KELOWNA – The judge in the trial of a Kelowna RCMP constable accused of assaulting an elderly bar patron will have to decide if the officer believed John McCormick was obstructing justice when he refused to leave Rose’s pub in downtown Kelowna last summer. Judge Gregory Koturbash heard final submissions in Kelowna Provincial...
Man in jail after starting a fire in a Kelowna law office
KELOWNA - Police don’t have a motive for why a man tried to start a fire inside a downtown law firm earlier today. RCMP media spokesman Const. Steve Holmes says the man entered the Pihl Law Corporation building at 1465 Ellis St. and started a fire in some clothing on the third floor at about...
Man accused of running down paper carrier during police chase won’t face judge until 2016
KELOWNA – A preliminary inquiry of prolific offender Donald Maxwell Brodie, accused of critically injuring a paper carrier while evading a police road block in 2013, has been set for early 2016. Brodie, 35, is charged with criminal negligence causing bodily harm, flight causing bodily harm, impaired driving causing bodily harm and two counts of...
Man assaulted in Vernon parking lot
VERNON - Police are investigating an assault that took place in the parking lot of the Fruit Union Plaza and put a man in hospital this weekend. A witness contacted police around 4:30 p.m. Sunday, June 28, to report the assault. RCMP Sgt. Tory Romailler says the victim, a man in his late-40s, was taken...
Man assaulted at Vernon business
VERNON – Police are investigating after a 24-year-old man was assaulted at a Vernon business last night. RCMP say they were called to the business in the 8100-block of Highland Road in a light industrial area on the north end of Swan Lake at about 10:50 p.m., June 18. The victim had minor injuries and...
‘He’s grabbing onto my gun,’ says cop charged with assault
LANGUAGE ADVISORY KELOWNA – An RCMP officer accused of assault says the elderly bar patron he took to the ground, punched three times and arrested last year was going for his gun. “I (felt) a very distinct feeling on my right hip,” the accused, Const. Grant Jacobson, 32, said in court today, May 26. “In...
UPDATE: Barfly says RCMP officer assaulted him after long day at the pub
LANGUAGE ADVISORY KELOWNA – A Kelowna man says a local RCMP constable assaulted him during an arrest at a downtown pub after 13 hours of drinking last summer. Const. Grant Jacobson pleaded not guilty to criminally assaulting John Patrick McCormick, 61, on the patio of Rose’s Pub in Kelowna at around 2 a.m. June 28,...