POLICE – Video of possible suspect in motel-room stabbing released
Kamloops RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance after a man was stabbed at a motel Wednesday afternoon. At about 5:15 p.m., police were alerted that a man [Continue]
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ROTHENBURGER – Here’s one party host who didn’t play his cards right
SOME GUY IN PINEVIEW VALLEY is more than three thousand dollars poorer today and I don’t feel at all sorry for him. For those who missed the story yesterday, police were [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Police need to ramp up transparency in crime reports
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. EVERY FEW DAYS, it seems, there’s a report from Kamloops RCMP about a break-in at a business. In many cases, a general location is [Continue]
POLICE – Four in custody after shot fired at house, auto chase through town
Four people are in custody after a report that a Knutsford home was shot at earlier today (Sunday, Nov. 8, 2020). The homeowner got the licence number of a red Kia Sole that [Continue]
POLICE – Shoplifter pulls bear spray on clerk at Columbia Street West store
A suspected shoplifter pulled a canister of bear spray on a store employee who tried to prevent the theft of a jacket Thursday afternoon. The Summit Centre Atmosphere store, [Continue]
McQUARRIE – 99 per cent of police officers are good. Or are they?
WHEN TALKING ABOUT POLICING and police officers in B.C., I hear many speak up in defence of their community police force. They claim that 99 per cent of their officers are [Continue]
POLICE – Man, bat apprehended after fight breaks out at bus exchange
A disagreement between two men at the North Shore bus exchange today (Oct. 31, 2020) turned into a foot chase with police after a baseball bat became involved. At 1:40 p.m. [Continue]
EDITORIAL – Columbia Street West is not the place to put social housing
An editorial by Mel Rothenburger. WE OFTEN LIKE TO REFER to street people, the addicted and the down-and-out as mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, aunts and uncles. It’s [Continue]
NATIONAL PULSE – Defend or defund? One in four say cut police budgets
By ANGUS REID INSTITUTE October 26, 2020 – As RCMP are criticized in Nova Scotia for failing to protect Mi’kmaq fishermen in Nova Scotia in a violent dispute over the [Continue]
POLICE – Another incident brings RCMP to upper Columbia Street
Police were called to a hotel on upper Columbia Street again today (Oct. 21, 2020), this time in response to a domestic dispute. The call, to the Panorama Inn in the 600 [Continue]
POLICE – Investigation underway after shot fired in alley behind Fortune Drive
Police are investigating a shooting incident in the alley behind Fortune Drive on Saturday night (Sept. 26, 2020). Kamloops RCMP responded to a report of shots fired in an [Continue]
POLICE – Driver arrested, charged in crash that killed three TRU students
The driver of a vehicle that crashed into a car on First Avenue killing three of its occupants and injuring another was arrested and charged with several offences today [Continue]
POLICE – 32-year-old man charged with second-degree murder in stabbing
A 32-year-old Kamloops resident has been charged with second-degree murder in the stabbing death of a man at the Acadian Motor Inn early Saturday. James Dylan Sanford has [Continue]
POLICE – Drug enforcement activity leads to several arrests
Media statement released by Kamloops RCMP Friday evening, Sept. 4, 2020: On August 13, 2020 members of the Crime Reduction Unit conducted a traffic stop that resulted in an [Continue]
