Kelowna Court
New trial ordered for man found guilty of assaulting his wife
EDITOR'S NOTE: While this story describes a B.C. Court of Appeal ordering a new trial,…
Penticton businessman still picking up the pieces after bookkeeper took life savings
PENTICTON – A Penticton bookkeeper will have to pay back much more than she took…
Kelowna judge who died of brain hemorrhage was ‘the heart of the chambers’
KELOWNA - Courthouse flags across the district are at half-mast today after the sudden passing of a beloved provincial court judge. Judge Anne K. Wallace was just 61 when she collapsed in her home Monday evening after a full work day. A sudden brain hemorrhage left her in a coma and doctors declared her legally...
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...
Oyama man gets jail for sex chat with undercover cop posing as child
KELOWNA – An Oyama man will spend the next 45 weekends in jail for talking about sex online with an undercover cop who was pretending to be a 14-year-old girl. Cory Samuel Brosnikoff, 46, pleaded guilty in Kelowna Provincial Court Friday, Sept. 25 to one count of child luring by telecommunication. Police executed a search...
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,...
15 months in jail for sex with a 14-year-old
"I JUST MADE A MISTAKE. SHE LOOKED OLDER." KELOWNA – A Kelowna man was handed a 15-month jail sentence for having consensual sex with a 14-year-old girl in 2013. Devin Thomas James Myra, who was 22 at the time, pleaded guilty in Kelowna Provincial Court Monday. He admitted to meeting the girl at a mutual...