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Salmon Arm police standoff leads to arrest
SALMON ARM – The focus of a police standoff yesterday in Salmon Arm was a…
RCMP not to blame for death of suspect who shot Golden Mountie: Police watchdog
REVELSTOKE – The suspect who led police on a manhunt after shooting a Mountie near…
Suspect in McGill Road standoff facing attempted murder charge
KAMLOOPS – A suspect involved in a weekend standoff near Thompson Rivers University is set…
Vernon senior could face charges after five hour standoff with police
VERNON - An elderly man arrested after a five hour standoff with police is looking at possible charges. The 70-year-old Vernon man was allegedly involved in a confrontation with a neighbour over some loud music around 1 a.m., April 10. When police arrived, the man had barricaded himself inside his unit of the fourplex. With...
Man hurls stuff at police from behind broken furniture barricade
VERNON - Mounties were dodging household items rather than bullets when a man barricaded himself behind a pile of broken furniture during a standoff with police Monday night. Vernon RCMP were called to 3901-21 Avenue at 10:15 p.m. Jan. 12, 2015 because a man was allegedly destroying the downstairs basement. A woman spoke to officers...
UPDATE: Standoff over at notorious house
KELOWNA – One-by-one nine people walked out of a house on Glenmore Road Friday morning with their hands over the heads and in the gun sights of RCMP officers surrounding the home. It took a police negotiator two hours to coax the suspects and their two dogs out of the house at 1370 Glenmore Rd....