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RCMP take person into custody after report of possible weapon
Kelowna RCMP arrested an individual after receiving a report of a possible weapon on Casorso…
Kamloops RCMP arrest man ‘freaking out’ with an axe
Multiple police officers took an axe-wielding man into custody on Saturday morning after he damaged…
Jessie Simpson home for Christmas for first time in six years
Jessie Simpson, who was brutally beaten with a baseball bat in 2016 and left with…
Clerk at Kamloops convenience story threatened with knife during robbery
A robbery involving a knife last night in Kamloops has police seeking the public’s help…
Vernon man arrested after armed standoff in Cherryville
A Vernon man is in custody after a standoff with police in Cherryville that lasted…
Man hospitalized after being stabbed in Kamloops
A man was recently taken to the hospital with a stab wound and a woman…
Kamloops cops seize homemade gun, machete from suspect on e-bike
An e-biker in Kamloops was carrying a machete in his backpack and a homemade gun…
Hold and secure at two Vernon schools following weapons report
Vernon RCMP were called to a weapons complaint yesterday and a hold and secure was…
Two sent to hospital in Kamloops after fight escalates to assault with weapon
Kamloops RCMP are investigating an assault with a weapon that landed two people in the…
Man brandishing tire iron arrested near Kelowna hospital
A man brandishing a tire iron walking around Kelowna's Pandosy Street was arrested by RCMP…
Man armed with stun baton, knives arrested on Kamloops’s North Shore
A report of a man on Tranquille Road in Kamloops carrying a "Taser baton" resulted…
Routine Kamloops traffic stop leads to weapon seizure
KAMLOOPS – A routine RCMP traffic stop on Seymour Street in Kamloops early yesterday morning revealed…
Judge sides with North Okanagan man who stabbed driver trying to save girlfriend in bizarre case
VERNON – A man who punched through a car window and stabbed the driver with…
Downtown arrest leads to drugs and weapons charges for Kelowna man
KELOWNA – A man arrested on an outstanding warrant was found with various drugs and…
Kamloops speeder caught with sawed-off shotgun and drugs
KAMLOOPS – A prohibited driver caught speeding and then found to be in possession of…
Man brought into custody after five hour standoff with Vernon RCMP
VERNON - A 70-year-old man was taken into custody Friday morning after a five-hour stand-off. Officers were called to a fourplex in the 4900 block of Old Kamloops Road just before 1 a.m. April 10 for a report of a distraught man, police said this morning. “He’d had a confrontation with a neighbour and then...
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...
Vernon judge comes down hard on missionary’s ‘corrective’ child beatings
“WHEN CONDUCT BASED ON RELIGIOUS BELIEFS IS CONTRARY WITH THE CRIMINAL CODE OF CANADA, THE CRIMINAL CODE MUST PREVAIL”: JUDGE VERNON - He said he punished his kids so they would never find themselves tangled up in the criminal justice system, like he is now. The 42-year-old, who met his wife while doing missionary work...
Penticton woman at large from Abbotsford prison
PENTICTON - A warrant has been issued for a Penticton woman incarcerated at the Fraser Valley Institute for Women when she failed to return to the prison following an authorized leave of absence. Amanda Sach, 24, has been missing since November 15, 2014 after she failed to return to the prison. Abbotsford Police issued a...