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Man brought into custody after five hour standoff with Vernon RCMP
VERNON - A 70-year-old man was taken into custody Friday morning after a five-hour stand-off. Officers were called to a fourplex in the 4900 block of Old Kamloops Road just before 1 a.m. April 10 for a report of a distraught man, police said this morning. “He’d had a confrontation with a neighbour and then...
Charges recommended against BB gun owner
KAMLOOPS – After responding to a complaint of a man waving around a gun, police are recommending charges against three men arrested Monday afternoon at an Upper Sahali residence. The resident, a 46-year-old man, was arrested after RCMP received a report of a drunk man with a handgun. The gun looked like a 9mm but...
Police respond to drunk man yelling, swearing, possibly holding gun
KAMLOOPS – Mounties took four people into custody Monday afternoon after responding to a report of an intoxicated man yelling and screaming in his backyard while holding what looked like a 9mm handgun. RCMP members went to the residence located in Upper Sahali at about 2:30 p.m. and recovered the weapon which was determined to...
Man rescued after falling nearly 30 feet
KAMLOOPS - Local fire, ambulance and search and rescue members rescued a man in his sixties after he fell nearly 30 feet down an embankment behind a house in Upper Sahali. Shortly after noon on Friday, Kamloops Fire Rescue were called in for a rope rescue and assisted ambulance responders by carrying the patient, secured...
Police looking for alleged groper
KAMLOOPS - A police hunt was launched after a man allegedly groped another man near Kitchner Crescent during the lunch hour Friday. Kamloops RCMP were told of the incident shortly after 12:30 p.m. A man was walking along the riverbank when he was approached by an unknown man. The second man spoke briefly with the...