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UPDATE: Doctor attacked by patient at Penticton Regional Hospital

PENTICTON - A Penticton doctor is recovering from a broken jaw and other facial injuries suffered during an alleged attack by a psychiatric patient at Penticton Regional Hospital Friday. Police responded to a call at the psychiatric unit at 4:22 p.m. and RCMP arrested 30-year-old Gregory Stanley Nield at the hospital and charged him with...

Kelowna cops capture copious crooks

KELOWNA – They called it The Warrant Team Project; a dedicated team of RCMP officers whose only job was to execute warrants and put bad guys behind bars. Almost 200 are cooling their heels or making their way through the justice system as a result. RCMP say during a 6-week period from mid-October to the...

Vernon RCMP still looking for driver who ran from accident scene

VERNON - Police continue to investigate a two vehicle accident that left a woman with life changing injuries. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk said an appeal for information generated several tips about the Dec. 3 car crash, which left a 44-year-old woman with numerous broken bones and a fractured spine. She continues to recover at Vancouver...

Pickup truck burns on Trans Canada near Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – A pickup truck was left to burn itself out on the Trans Canada just west of Kamloops Sunday afternoon because the area isn’t covered by a fire department. The Kamloops Fire Rescue dispatcher confirmed there was a vehicle fire but pointed out the area near the New Afton gold mine doesn’t have any...

Crash claims life of Chase woman

CHASE – A 39-year-old woman from Chase was killed when the vehicle she was a passenger in left Kamloops Shuswap Road Saturday afternoon and rolled down a steep embankment. Const. Valerie Guillaume with the Chase RCMP detachment says the crash happened about five kilometres west of Pritchard at about 3 p.m. Three people were in...

UPDATE: Missing 12-year-old girl found

KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP say a missing 12-year-old girl has been found and reunited with her foster family. Shyla Billy ran away around 4:30 p.m. Friday. "At this time, the Kamloops RCMP are not requesting any further information or assistance from the public but wish to thank the public and our media agencies for their...

OFFICER DOWN: A timeline of the last three days in Kamloops

KAMLOOPS – It’s been three days of shock, fear, concern, heart-ache, anger and finally, maybe even a little relief as the City of Kamloops and its detachment of RCMP officers came to grips with the shooting of an RCMP officer. Cpl. Jean-René Michaud, a 40-year-old father of two, was carrying out perhaps the most basic...

Police searching for missing 15-year-old boy

VERNON - Police need help finding a 15-year-old boy who went missing from his home a few weeks ago. Dalton James Prasloski-Spencer has indicated he's ok through social media, but his family and police are very worried about his well-being, according to an RCMP media release. He has a history of choosing a high-risk lifestyle....

Knutson arrest opens ‘old wounds’ for family of previous shooting victim

COQUITLAM – Family members of a young Coquitlam man who died from a gunshot wound in 2002 are shaken by news the man who killed him is now implicated in the attempted murder of Kamloops RCMP Cpl. Jean-René Michaud. “My whole family is upset... it will always hurt us,” Will Lesniak says. “It’s a very...

Kenneth Michael Knutson charged with attempted murder of police officer

THREE WOMEN ALSO ARRESTED KAMLOOPS - Kenneth Michael Knutson has been named as the man accused of shooting an RCMP officer on Wednesday morning and will appear in court later this month. Charges against the 36-year-old, who is well-known to police, include attempted murder, aggravated assault of a peace officer, possession of a firearm while...

Kamloops RCMP will not be investigated

KAMLOOPS - The independent investigations office will not be investigating after a suspect was injured following the shooting of an officer Wednesday morning. Cpl. Jean-René Michaud was shot around 2:45 a.m. during a routine traffic stop and a backup officer who happened to be nearby exchanged fire with the suspect before the suspect got away. When...

UPDATE: Trans Canada reopens after fatal crash near Chase

KAMLOOPS - A fatal crash just west of Chase closed the highway in both directions for several hours Thursday. Three vehicles were involved in the crash on Highway 1, five kilometres west of Chase, according to an RCMP media release. An eastbound logging truck and westbound car collided, leading to another collision when a tractor-trailer...

Flights cancelled by police helicopter searching for suspect

KAMLOOPS - Two arrival flights were cancelled Wednesday afternoon due to RCMP acitivities that closed air space above Kamloops.  RCMP requested air space closure as its helicopter hovered and flew over the Batchelor Heights area in the search for suspects after a Mountie was shot in the early morning hours. "It was a tad on...

Charges yet to be laid in officer shooting

ALL BATCHELOR HEIGHTS RESIDENTS ALLOWED HOME KAMLOOPS - RCMP still have not charged the main suspect in yesterday's shooting of a police officer while the Independent Investigations Office of B.C. said today it is considering ending its own investigation of the police officers involved. Police arrested a 36-year-old man yesterday afternoon, nearly 13 hours after...

Man who ran from accident scene may be injured

VERNON - Police need help finding the driver of a Jeep involved in a hit-and-run Wednesday evening. The two vehicle crash between a blue Jeep and a Hyundai happened at 39 Avenue and Alexis Park Drive at roughly 5:30 p.m. The driver of the Jeep ran from the scene while the 44-year-old driver of the...

Former Kamloops Mountie: Shooting brings back bad memories

KAMLOOPS - Former RCMP officer Rob Creasser is reliving his nightmare after a Mountie was shot not far from his home in Batchelor Hills Wednesday morning. Creasser was conducting a routine traffic check in the Monte Creek area in 1991 when he was shot at. “A vehicle was actually pulled over and it was a...

Police have identified suspect with potential links to 13 break and enters

KAMLOOPS – Mounties identified one suspect and are searching for a second involved in 13 break-ins of Aberdeen and Sahali area businesses in November. The businesses were broken into the night of Nov. 13 and early morning hours of Nov. 14. Cheryl Bush, a spokesperson for the Kamloops RCMP says the two individuals entered the...

Kelowna man crashes and dies near Kamloops

KELOWNA - A Kelowna man was killed when he crashed with a tractor-trailer just south of Duck Range Road near Kamloops Saturday. Jairo Alexis Vicioso David, 34, of Kelowna was the driver and sole occupant of the vehicle when the accident happened at roughly 5 p.m. Nov. 28, according to an RCMP media release. David...

Teens learn hard way yellow light means stop not hit the gas

KELOWNA - Two teens involved in a serious collision at a Kelowna intersection managed to escape with only minor injuries Sunday night. Kelowna RCMP say an officer came upon the accident at Harvey Avenue and Spall Road at 8:09 p.m. Nov. 30. Witnesses say a black Chevy Impala traveling west on Harvey was moving fast,...

Kamloops cops deal with 2nd suspicious object in a week

KAMLOOPS – It was just last weekend Kamloops RCMP were called to a downtown alley to investigate a suspicious object, and on Saturday, suspicious object number two was found near the Overlanders Bridge. RCMP say at about 3:40 p.m. they responded to a report of a suspicious item next to the off ramp from the...

Pepper-sprayed patron at Vernon Rec Centre

VERNON - A man was peppered-sprayed in the changeroom at the Vernon Recreation Complex Wednesday night and police are still searching for a suspect. Staff called RCMP at roughly 9:15 p.m. Nov. 26 to report the incident. When Mounties came to investigate, they were told the suspect ran out the back door of the complex....

Heavy snow falls on Kamloops, rain on way

TRAFFIC STRUGGLING ON STEEP ROADS KAMLOOPS - Heavy snow has caused traffic backups this morning in Kamloops but no major problems, according to the city, RCMP and the school district. A light rain began at the airport around 5 p.m. Tuesday, with light snow falling in the valley much of the night. At higher elevations,...