Yellowknife RCMP say one man has been charged and another man was sent to hospital following an attack in the city’s downtown core on Tuesday night. According to an RCMP news release, officers responded about 9:30 pm to a reported assault in the area of 50 Avenue and 50 Street….
A Fort Good Hope man has been sentenced to five years in a southern penitentiary after he pleaded guilty to attacking a couple with an axe in that Sahtu community in 2018. Christopher Shae, 49, bowed his head as he was sentenced for aggravated assault in Supreme Court in Yellowknife…
It appears a Yellowknife woman, charged in connection with two armed convenience store robberies in the city earlier this year, will remain in custody at least until her preliminary hearing which is set for Dec. 11. Cynthia Lafferty, 20, appeared in court Tuesday in Yellowknife via video from the women’s…
A man from the Tlicho community of Gameti, charged with murder in the death of Archie Wedzin in Behchoko on April 8, now has two legal aid lawyers representing him. Alecus Quitte, 21, made a brief video court appearance in Yellowknife on Tuesday. Neither he nor his lawyers are contesting his…
A Behchoko man has been found not guilty of assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest and uttering threats following a trial earlier this year in Behchoko and Yellowknife. Jean-Louis Rabesca, 50, was acquitted of all charges against him by Territorial Court Judge Donovan Molloy who, in his decision earlier this…
RCMP in the Northwest Territories have once again defended its officers for locking up a sexual assault victim. A then-13-year-old girl, the victim of a vicious sexual assault in 2014 at the Hay River high rise, was jailed by Mounties — they say — for being intoxicated and breaching her…
A man accused in a fatal attack in front of the Yellowknife Sobering Centre Tuesday is now charged with second-degree murder. Victor Ugyuk, 32, made a very brief appearance in Justice of the Peace bail court on Friday afternoon. He is charged in the beating death of Mark Poodlat, 36,…
It was a day of sad, dramatic and at times difficult testimony to listen to as a preliminary hearing was held in Yellowknife Wednesday for a man left a quadriplegic in an incident last year in the Sahtu community of Colville Lake. Eddy Cook Jr., 56, from Fort Good Hope,…
A former Yellowknife man has been declared a dangerous offender and imprisoned for 14 years to be followed by ten years of long-term supervision after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl in Hay River in 2014. Cody Durocher, 34, was handed his punishment in Supreme Court in…
An administrative review conducted by Northwest Territories RCMP on one of their own officers has cleared the Mountie after a man was injured, allegedly while being arrested in Yellowknife earlier this year. RCMP stated that the review was conducted by a commissioned NWT RCMP officer, an inspector, who was “independent of…