Crime

Top ten dumb criminal stories of 2024 in Okanagan, Kamloops
Criminals in the Okanagan and Kamloops had some harebrained schemes this year, so here’s a…

Crown want 19 years jail for violent North Okanagan grow-op robbery
Armed with shotguns and with their faces covered, Edward Scott Coghill and Stewart Wayne Tkachuk…

Curtis Sagmoen charged with another probation breach
A North Okanagan man who has multiple convictions for violence against sex workers has been…

Accused in Scotch Creek murder gets bail
A man accused of a 2021 murder in Scotch Creek was released on bail today.…

Prominent member of South Okanagan wine industry accused of sexually assaulting migrant worker
RCMP in Oliver are encouraging victims to come forward after a prominent member of the…

Kelowna police looking for man pretending to be reflexologist
Kelowna RCMP are searching for a man who has been massaging women's feet without their…

‘Not a toy’: Penticton prolific offender jailed for 3D-printed gun threat
A prolific offender who pointed a 3D-printed gun at a Penticton woman who had retrieved…

Grinch cuts, steals blue spruce off family property in Kamloops
Apparently people will do just about anything to get a real Christmas tree — even…

Disabled Kamloops man victim of $10,000 theft worth of tools, hunting equipment
Shattered, disheartened and full of rage are just a few words Heffley Creek resident Trent…

South Okanagan woman charged with attempted murder
A 28-year-old Oliver woman has been charged with attempted murder. Denise Ibeth Lalonde Velazquez failed…

Suspects get away after early morning police chase through Kamloops
When police tried to pull over a truck and trailer early Friday morning in Kamloops…

Retired RCMP officer convicted of killing his wife in Penticton up for parole
The family of a woman brutally killed by a retired RCMP officer in Penticton is…

RCMP crackdown on drug traffickers dealing to Kelowna’s homeless population
Several arrests have been made and a quantity of illegal drugs seized after RCMP targeted…

RCMP close Highway 5A in Kamloops during raid on home
RCMP closed a busy section of Highway 5A in Kamloops Wednesday afternoon due to an…

Former District of Summerland staffer guilty of fraud and breach of trust
In the summer of 2022 when 35-year-old Tracey Ann McEvoy left her job as an admin…