Elevate your local knowledge

Sign up for the iNFOnews newsletter today!

Select Region

Selecting your primary region ensures you get the stories that matter to you first.

Kristine Neurauter

Dealer convicted despite arrest made on ‘hunch’

PENTICTON — A Penticton man was convicted of trafficking cocaine today, despite his lawyer's claims of sloppy police work by Penticton RCMP. Erik T.C. Larsen, born in 1984, was arrested in May 2012 for possession of cocaine with intent to sell in a dial-a-dope operation. While Penticton Supreme Court justice Alison Beames found him guilty...