Kamloops Rcmp Have Not Confirmed
UPDATE: McGill Road police response was for a false report of a home invasion
KAMLOOPS - There was a heavy police presence in the 200-block of McGill Road this afternoon as officers responded to a report of a home invasion around 12:30 p.m. Const. Jason Epp, a spokesperson for the Kamloops RCMP detachment, says a man called 9-1-1 and reported two people armed with guns were invading his home....
UPDATE: False alarm triggered heavy police response in Kamloops
KAMLOOPS - A 9-1-1 call which triggered a heavy police response of officers armed with rifles, the emergency response team, the K-9 unit and more this afternoon turned out to be a false alarm in Brocklehurst. Const. Jason Epp, a spokesperson for the Kamloops RCMP, said the call came in around 1:30 p.m., July 2....
UPDATE: Police take down suspect after gas station robbery, release after questioning
KAMLOOPS - Police have released a man in custody after their search for a man who produced a knife in a gas station robbery. Mubeen Ahmed, a supervisor at the Summit Drive Super Save Gas station, said a man entered the location between 1 and 1:30 p.m. produced a knife and demanded cash from the...
UPDATE: Woman dies from burns; Coroner questions RCMP suicide statement
KAMLOOPS - A woman has died from injuries sustained from burns suffered in a city park early this morning, March 31 and the cause of the fire is now being questioned. Kamloops RCMP initially said the incident was a suicide, but B.C. Coroner's Service spokesperson Barb McLintock says it is too early to tell what...
UPDATE: RCMP investigating armed home invasion
KAMLOOPS - RCMP officers were on scene at a North Shore home Monday to investigate an alleged home invasion that took place around 5 p.m. Kamloops RCMP were called to a residence in the 300 block of Fortune Drive on Monday, March 30, for a report of a home invasion with a weapon in progress....
Security tightened at ministry office
KAMLOOPS – Enhanced security, including locked doors and a security guard, was put in place at a Brocklehurst ministry office recently but officials are staying tight-lipped as to what led to it. The Ministry of Children and Families office on Southill Street had 'enhanced security' for an undisclosed period. “Based on information received by the...
Mother frustrated by RCMP handling of missing daughter
KAMLOOPS – A local mother is calling for a change in RCMP protocol for missing persons after her daughter went missing twice in a two-day period last week and could have stayed missing if friends hadn’t come to her aid. Jenny Dodman filed a missing persons report after her daughter didn’t come home when she...
Suspects apprehended after break and enter in Valleyview
KAMLOOPS - Police arrested two suspects after seeing a male suspect climb out of the fenced compound at RTR Performance while following up on an alarm call at the business in Valleyview. Cpl. Cheryl Bush, a spokesperson with the Kamloops RCMP, says the investigation revealed that the suspect broke a window to gain access to...
Vehicle break-ins continue in Sahali
KAMLOOPS - Do not leave anything valuable in your parked cars while attending class at the Kamloops Hot Yoga studio in Sahali. Management is warning yogis to be more vigilant after several vehicle break-ins at the yoga studio. Two studio members had their vehicles broken into Feb. 3, and another two other vehicles were broken into...
Cars broken into at Kamloops yoga studio
KAMLOOPS - Two vehicles were broken into on the evening of Jan. 26 at the Kamloops Hot Yoga studio on Laval Crescent. "It sucks... I was just coming out of class," Manager Nisha Jaswal said. "This never happened before." The cars, belonging to two female studio members, were broken into sometime during the evening class....