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RCMP find guns and drugs in Highland Motel room
PENTICTON - Three people were arrested for drugs and possession of weapons on Saturday night at the Highland Motel after police were called to calm down a party. Police first spotted a sawed-off shotgun inside the room. After an investigation of the room, police seized additional weapons, a large quantity of MDMA (Ecstasy), other illicit...
Local mountie takes a plunge for ALS research
KELOWNA – Const. Kris Clark of the Kelowna RCMP made a splash Friday afternoon, in support of ALS research. Clark was nominated by a host of a local radio station earlier this week to take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, a viral sensation that is raising money and awareness for ALS research. Clark says he...
Why you’ve seen so many missing person reports on your news feed this summer
THOMPSON-OKANAGAN - The faces of missing people from the Thompson-Okanagan have poured into news feeds over the last few months, but police say it’s nothing out of the ordinary for this time of year. Spokesperson for the RCMP Const. Kris Clark says the summer months typically see more reports of missing people. “You’ve got the...
Missing fruit picker found in Summerland
SUMMERLAND - A Quebec fruit picker who went missing last week has been found and is recovering from injuries at the Kelowna Regional Hospital. Julien Landry, a 25-year-old Quebec man was reported missing on Friday, Aug. 15. Friends hadn’t seen him since he went hiking after dinner on Wednesday. Landry loves to hike and take...
Car and city bus collide
KAMLOOPS - Failure to yield led to a crash between a city transit bus and a car in Pineview Valley Wednesday morning. Just after 8 a.m. the bus and Volkswagon Jetta collided at the corner of Hugh Allan Drive and Copperhead Drive. RCMP Const. Jason Epp says the crash happened when the driver of the...
Police did not request statement on night of crash: Witness
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops Supreme court heard Thursday morning about more RCMP errors in the investigation of a fatal accident when a witness who was first on scene said officers told him to leave the accident site and go home. Brittany Plotnikoff, 20, and her boyfriend Ken Craigdallie, 32, died after a truck crashed on...
Witness describes truck driving erratically the night two passengers died
KAMLOOPS – Tailgating, highbeaming and lane changing is how James Schneider, the first witness called in a dangerous driving causing death trial in Kamloops Supreme Court, described a truck’s driving patterns the night two people died in a single vehicle crash. Wayne Fedan, born 1961, is charged with dangerous and impaired driving causing the deaths...
Strange Vernon crash investigation like a scene from a TV show
VERNON - Mounties are looking for witnesses to help them figure out a bizarre series of events overnight that could have been straight out of a mystery crime show. At about 1 a.m. Aug. 21, an officer was called to investigate a reported accident in the 3700 block of Welker Road in Vernon. The caller...
Middleton Mountain plagued by thefts from vehicles
VERNON - Police are asking the public to be vigilant following a series of thefts from vehicles in the Middleton Mountain area. RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk says there have been over 30 reports of damage or thefts to vehicles in that neighbourhood over the last ten days. “(They) have experienced numerous mischief, and theft from...
Trio of children arrested for setting fire to elementary school
SALMON ARM - An arson at a Salmon Arm elementary school was made even more troubling by the fact its perpetrators were children. Salmon Arm RCMP arrested a six, eight and 10-year-old in connection with a fire at South Broadview Elementary. The kids were picked up by police shortly after the 1:30 p.m. blaze on...
Cyclist clipped near McDonalds in Armstrong
ARMSTRONG – A 16-year-old Armstrong boy will be all right after he was hit by the driver of a Mazda pickup truck across from the McDonalds on Smith Street Thursday afternoon. The teen was riding his bike on the sidewalk when he was struck by the truck coming out of a strip mall parking lot...
School bus loses brakes in busy beach parking lot
COLDSTREAM – No one was hurt when a school bus stalled, and then lost it’s brakes in the steep, and very busy, Kal Beach parking lot in Coldstream Wednesday afternoon. The 35-year-old woman from Saskatchewan was behind the wheel with her six children on board. A Vernon man following the bus up the slope in...
Bald tires cause Coq crash
KAMLOOPS - Heavy rains created the conditions for the driver of a Ford Mustang to hydroplane on the highway, causing a crash that sent three people to hospital Thursday evening. Staff Sgt. Doug Aird says a 2011 Ford Mustang was driving in the northbound slow lane near the Inks Lake turn on the Coquihalla Highway....
Suspicious fire in West Kelowna
WEST KELOWNA – The RCMP are looking for your help to find a couple of young men after a suspicious fire was set in West Kelowna Wednesday night. Firefighters were called to the front entrance of a property in the 3500 block of Elk Road around 10:30 p.m. and quickly put out the fire. RCMP...
Police still investigating shooting in Fortune Drive home
KAMLOOPS – So far no charges have been laid after a Kamloops man was shot in the face August 2. Around midnight last Saturday, officers discovered the 23-year-old male on the front steps of a house on the 300 block of Fortune Drive. He was still breathing and conscious after suffering a gunshot wound to his...