CRESTON, B.C. – A 53-year-old man can count his lucky stars or may want to think of this as his Christmas Miracle after surviving an 80-feet plunge into a mine shaft while snowmobiling with friends. The Creston man suffered only a broken wrist and a broken ankle. Police and Nelson search and rescue were called [...]
QUEEN CHARLOTTE, B.C. – A man who tried to sabotage the local RCMP detachment by attempting to set a fire could have ended up causing havoc – both in terms of lives and property damage. “On Friday evening December 17th, the on duty cell guard interrupted an unknown suspect in an apparent arson attempt to [...]
PRINCE GEORGE, B.C. – Cops say the driver of a massive runaway rig did well to manoeuvre the fully loaded chip truck on to a meridian to avoid running into a Boston Pizza restaurant. Cpl. Craig Douglass said the huge tractor-trailer truck lost its brakes as the driver was coming down the Peden Hill section [...]
VANCOUVER, B.C. – The gang shootout that left ten wounded on Oak Street on Dec. 12 has prompted Vancouver Police Chief Jim Chu to unleash citizen spies who will keep an eye on licence plates of known gangsters and report their positions to cops. The so-called Citizen’s Crime Watch patrol currently has 100 volunteers and [...]
KITCHENER, ONT – Police have made public a video that shows how robbers carted away jewelry from a Kitchener store. Waterloo Regional Police are hoping members of the public who view the video of the robbers at work will phone in if they recognize the suspects who invaded the Ben Moss Jewelry store located at [...]
OTTAWA – Health Canada is warning consumers that hair smoothing products have been found to contain formaldehyde above limits set by the government and some people may get adverse reactions from the chemical. “As part of its ongoing work on hair smoothing products, Health Canada is warning Canadians that ten additional professional hair smoothing solutions [...]
VANCOUVER – Cops went live on Twitter to give Vancouverites a taste of how hectic policing can be. Const. Anne Longley began tweeting incoming police incident calls at 8 a.m. on Thursday. And when she packed up for the day, her last message was: “I’m heading out – been tweeting since 8 a.m. I coudn’t [...]
VANCOUVER – A sophisticated scheme to buy gasoline through credit card fraud for sale on the black market has been uncovered by Vancouver Police. Police announced the arrest of 24-year-old Lucas Sui Cheng on Wednesday night and call him the “mastermind” behind an operation that involved “using counterfeit credit cards to purchase large quantities of [...]
VANCOUVER – In an unusual move – and potentially challengeable in higher courts – the cops and the B.C. government have seized a Ferrari and a BMW as assets derived from proceeds of crime. The offence was that the two men driving the vehicles were racing them at speeds of 200 km/h up Mount Seymour [...]
VANCOUVER – A drunk driver from Coquitlam picked the road outside the central police station to smash into three police cars. He also injured a police officer and a 60-year-old pedestrian. Const. Lindsey Houghton says two unmarked police cars have been put out of service by the impact of the collision and a marked cop [...]
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