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Bomb threat forces evacuation at Salmon Arm school
SALMON ARM - The students of a Salmon Arm middle school were evacuated Tuesday after a prank bomb threat. The threat was at Shuswap Middle School and students were evacuated to the school field and then moved to South Broadview Elementary while police investigated, School District 83 stated in a press release. By 12:38 p.m.,...
Kelowna man caught driving great big bright stolen Hummer
KELOWNA - Perhaps stealing a gold Hummer wasn't the best idea an alleged thief ever had. Mounties say that's the detail that led them to a 32-year-old Kelowna man who now faces potential charges of theft and possession of stolen property. He was arrested when they pulled over a gold 2003 Hummer on Asher Road...
What happened to a Lillooet woman last seen 30 years ago?
LILLOOET - RCMP are turning their focus once again to the strange disappearance of a Lillooet woman reported missing more than 30 years ago. Roxanne Fleming was 18 in 1982, described by those who knew her as a vibrant First Nations woman. On August 23 that year she broke her finger and went to the...
RCMP: Chase woman’s death in fire not crime-related
KAMLOOPS – RCMP investigators in Chase say they don’t believe the trailer fire which claimed a woman’s life on Jan. 16 was crime-related. “We have absolutely no information that it’s criminal,” Sgt. Gary Heebner said Monday, Jan. 19. Heebner added that the Fire Commissioner out of Victoria and fire investigators from Surrey have conducted a...
Kelowna drug house raided by RCMP
KELOWNA – Drugs and guns were seized during an RCMP raid at a known drug house in Kelowna. Police executed a search warrant at the house in the 1800-block of High Rd. on Tuesday, Jan. 13 on the look for guns, according to an RCMP media release. Mounties say there were a large number of...
Man arrested for break and enter also wanted in Alberta
VERNON - Mounties arrested one of two men a witness said broke into a new townhouse construction site overnight, Jan. 16, 2015. RCMP received the report at roughly 3:30 a.m., according to a media release. The caller told police two men wearing hoodies partly covering their faces came to the scene in a silver pickup...
RCMP investigate hit-and-run between Kelowna semi-truck and building
SALMON ARM - Alarms rang at a Salmon Arm service station when the building was struck by a semi-truck Monday night. Several alarms rang at The Great Canadian Oil Change located on the Trans-Canada Highway starting at 9 p.m. Jan. 12, 2015. According to a Salmon Arm RCMP media release, the collision resulted in several...
Mounties respond to ‘unnerving’ report of man carrying Samurai sword in Enderby
ENDERBY - Police arrested an Enderby man for possession of a weapon after a reported incident involving a Samurai sword last Friday. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says police responded to a report of a 39-year-old man yelling at a resident in a Baird Avenue apartment building in Enderby to come out and fight. Police arrived...
Woman’s strange disappearance has police stumped
VERNON - RCMP are hoping someone knows what happened to a missing Vernon woman. Johanna Frouw, 58, was reported missing by her common-law husband Thursday evening. The pair drove to the liquor store near Safeway on 32 Street to buy beer and she chose to wait in the car. When Frouw's common-law husband returned, Frouw...
Vernon RCMP disrupt ‘potentially dangerous’ drug trafficking operation
VERNON - Mounties have busted a Vernon drug ring with ties to the Lower Mainland. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk said two men, Andres Naranjo, 21, and Daniel Penton, 21, both of the Lower Mainland but residing in Vernon, were arrested Dec. 19. Naranjo is facing charges of trafficking cocaine and possession of cocaine and heroin...
Suspect drives stolen car into snowbank
VERNON COP IN THE RIGHT PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME TO CATCH THIEF VERNON - A man well known to police didn’t get far in a stolen vehicle in Vernon early Thursday morning. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says a Kimberley man was on his way back to his hotel from Denny’s around 1:40 a.m. when...
Vernon’s connection to a Lower Mainland gang called the Unknown Soldiers
GANG SETS UP ‘DRUG FRANCHISES’ IN SMALL COMMUNITIES; POLICE BELIEVE VERNON WAS ONE OF THEM VERNON - Mounties believe the alleged drug runner arrested last month in a targeted police investigation is involved with a relatively new gang calling itself the Unknown Soldiers. Sgt. Lindsey Houghton with the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of British Columbia...
Senior pedestrian left unconscious; police seek information
VERNON - Police are looking for more information about a hit and run that left a 69-year-old man unconscious on the side of the road. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk said the accident happened Thursday, Jan. 8 just before 9 p.m. at the intersection of Husband Road and Kalamalka Lake Road in Coldstream. “The witness who...
Man will face the judge for what RCMP say he did during Smith Creek fire
WEST KELOWNA - The man who RCMP believe took advantage of the West Kelowna fire evacuation notice last July to break into an empty home to steal has been charged. On July 2014, West Kelowna RCMP received a report of break and enter and theft from a home in the 2500 block of Cobblestone Road....
UPDATE: Teenage girl found safe and sound
UPDATE: Hayley Haines has been found and is safe and sound, according to an RCMP media release. KAMLOOPS - Kamloops RCMP are asking for public assistance to help them locate a missing teenage girl. Hayley Haines was last heard from January 4, but has been away from home for a couple weeks. Though this is...