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Crown want 19 years jail for violent North Okanagan grow-op robbery
Armed with shotguns and with their faces covered, Edward Scott Coghill and Stewart Wayne Tkachuk…
Former Kelowna man guilty of intimidating justice system gets another break from justice system
A former Kelowna man found guilty of intimidation of the justice system has successfully avoided…
South Okanagan pedophile charged for sexual assault while on bail
In the months and weeks before being sent to prison for 10 years, a South…
No jail for Vernon driver involved in fatal hit and run
It was dark and raining on the November morning last year when Blake Eric Martin…
Crown loses appeal to have Kelowna firefighter put behind bars
Crown prosecutors have failed in their attempt to get jail time for a former Kelowna…
Lake Country man used fake smoke detector to film women in bed with him
A former Lake Country man filmed himself having sex with multiple women using a camera…
Vernon drug dealer gets jail for dealing drugs while on bail for drug dealing
A Vernon man who was caught dealing drugs while on bail for dealing drugs was…
Fraudster who bilked elderly Okanagan couple out of $12,000 in roofing scam out of jail soon
A 65-year-old man with multiple convictions for fraud spanning back three decades appeared at the…
B.C. woman thrown in jail after escalating strata dispute
A Vancouver woman who ignored a court order imposed after she got into a lengthy…
Violent Vernon man too incapacitated to be sent to prison gets released
A 21-year-old Vernon man convicted of a violent armed robbery will spend another couple of…
Kelowna woman who started North Okanagan fires released
A Kelowna woman who started fires in Enderby earlier this year had walked 90 kilometres…
Man who threw molotov cocktail into Kelowna forest out of jail
A Kelowna man, who has been in jail for the past 11 months for trying…
Kamloops man avoids deportation after pleading guilty to sexual assault
A Kamloops man has avoided deportation after pleading guilty to sexually assaulting a friend while…
Kamloops-area man jailed for violent rape of ex-girlfriend
A Kamloops-area man will spend almost seven years behind bars for the violent rape of…
Vernon man caught in ‘Goofbusters’ sting gets six months in jail
CONTENT ADVISORY A 44-year-old Vernon man caught trying to lure a 14-year-old boy online during…
Same crime, different outcome: Penticton fentanyl dealers get vastly different sentences
A couple of Okanagan drug dealers busted in a Walmart parking lot for selling fentanyl…
North Okanagan senior who raped his granddaughter gets 4 years jail
A 77-year-old North Okanagan man who repeatedly sexually abused his 14-year-old granddaughter will spend four…
Kamloops top cop displeased with man’s three-year sentence for killing TRU students
Reid McKnight was handed a three-year sentence for killing three men in a Kamloops hit…
B.C. trucker with 46 driving infractions gets 3 years jail for fatal crash
A professional B.C. truck driver with 46 driving infractions was sentenced to three years in…
Kelowna man published video of hamster torture to ‘ruin peoples’ day’
CONTENT ADVISORY The now-21-year-old Kelowna man who recorded himself torturing three hamsters and publishing the…
Kamloops digital ‘hoarder’ sentenced to jail for possessing child porn
A Kamloops man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail followed by two years…
Man who exposed himself to women in Kamloops will be released
A Kamloops man facing charges of indecent acts in public will serve one additional day…
Kamloops dial-a-dope dealer evades justice for six years, avoids prison
A former Kamloops man, who fled B.C. for six years before his trial has avoided…
Jail ‘only option’ for Shuswap Band member, freeman-on-the-land who ignored court order, used hot tub
A Little Shuswap Lake Indian Band member who is referred to in court documents as…