A traffic stop led to the seizure of dozens of bottles and cans of alcohol in Délįne this past weekend. According to a news release, on Saturday police conducted a traffic stop on the ice road going into the community. Officers then seized 20 375-mL bottles of vodka, a bottle…
Crown prosecutors in Yellowknife have yet to decide if they will launch an appeal into the four-year jail sentence handed to a Yellowknife man who killed a City Cab driver back in November of 2018. Senior Crown prosecutor Alex Godfrey spoke with CKLB Thursday. “We have 60 days from the…
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…
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…
A sexual assault trial ground to a halt on Tuesday in Yellowknife after the accused asked for a Tlicho interpreter. Leon Nasken, 65, is facing a single count of sexual assault. According to RCMP, he was charged in May of 2018 after a complaint from a woman. It is not…
A prominent Yellowknife citizen appeared in court Wednesday in an effort to have property she says belongs to her, her husband and her son returned to them by the RCMP. Two vehicles, a snowmobile and a rifle were seized by RCMP in 2016 when drug trafficking charges were laid against…