A Yellowknife man will serve just over two more years in custody after he admitted he chased down a Yellowknife cab driver in November 2018 and beat him to death. 20-year-old Elias Schiller was sentenced to four years in jail in Supreme Court In Yellowknife Tuesday, after he had earlier…
A Fort Good Hope man has been found guilty of manslaughter in the death of Lloyd Edgi in that Sahtu community in 2017. 26-year-old Colten McNeely was convicted in Supreme Court in Yellowknife Tuesday. He was initially charged with murder after stabbing the 28 year old Edgi in the chest…
A suspect arrested by RCMP for armed robberies and break and enter in Whitehorse has now been charged with assaulting Mounties in Inuvik. According to a news release from police, Corey Cardinal, who was arrested in Inuvik last weekend, is now facing two charges of assaulting a police officer causing…
Nine people have been arrested in Hay River with three of them charged with drug trafficking-related offences. According to an RCMP news release, they were all arrested last Thursday by Hay River RCMP, assisted by the Yellowknife General Investigation Section, Major Crimes Unit, Police Dog Services, Federal Investigation Section, and the combined…
A Yellowknife man, 18-years-old at the time of his crime, is facing six years in jail for chasing and then beating a 73-year-old Yellowknife cab driver and then leaving him in the snow to die. 20-year-old Elias Schiller appeared in a packed Supreme Court in Yellowknife on Monday for the…
The vast majority of offenders in correctional facilities in the Northwest Territories are Indigenous people despite the fact they make up only about half of the territory’s overall population. CKLB asked the Justice Department of the NWT for the numbers after federal prison numbers were released this week. “Currently, of…
A hunting rifle that belongs to the father of convicted Yellowknife drug dealer Norman Hache has been returned to its rightful owner. Denis Hache appeared in Supreme Court in Yellowknife Thursday arguing that he lent the 20-year-old Winchester rifle to his son to go hunting and that it should be…
Edmonton police say a man with ties to Hay River and Yellowknife is wanted for murder in Edmonton. According to an Edmonton police news release, their Homicide Section is looking for Amin Yussuf, 29, who remains wanted on Canada-wide warrants in connection to the shooting death of 26-year-old Abubeker Gemechu…
A second suspect, wanted in connection with a series of armed robberies in Whitehorse, has been arrested in Inuvik. Corey Robert Cardinal, 32, was arrested Tuesday with the help of Inuvik RCMP, a news release states. Police don’t say exactly where he was arrested nor any circumstances surrounding his apprehension….
Northwest Territories taxpayers will initially pay for four firefighters who have headed to Australia to help with the country’s devastating wildfires. But the GNWT will eventually be reimbursed for their services. That’s according to Mike Gravel, director of forest management with the Government of the Northwest Territories Dept. of Environment…