An Aklavik man has now been formally charged with aggravated assault after a man was attacked in that Beaufort Delta community earlier this month. According to a news release from the Mounties Thursday, the man was arrested after they responded to a call about an injured 36-year-old man back on…
A sentencing hearing for a Yellowknife man, convicted of assaulting a police officer with a vehicle, has been postponed after the judge presiding over the case became ill. A sentencing hearing for Garry Taylor, 39, was to take place in Territorial Court in Yellowknife last week but had to be…
Kevin O’Reilly has retained his Frame Lake MLA seat after a judicial recount in Yellowknife Wednesday morning. O’Reilly, the left-leaning incumbent, defeated the more pro-business David Ramsay by just 11 votes on election night last week. NWT Chief Electoral Officer Nicole Latour told CKLB that the recount numbers were exactly…
Elections NWT has confirmed there will be two judicial recounts Wednesday for last week’s territorial election. Both will take place at the Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories in Yellowknife. The two Yellowknife ridings to be recounted are Frame Lake, where incumbent Kevin O’Reilly won over Dave Ramsay by 11…
Originally from Grand Prairie, AB, 26-year-old Salah Omar is facing a series drug-related charges. According to an RCMP news release, the charges stem from offences committed in September 2018 and include one count of possession for the purpose of trafficking, one count of obstructing a peace officer, and four counts…
A Yellowknife father and son duo have pleaded guilty to reduced charges in connection to the death of a Yellowknife cab driver in 2018. 20-year old Elias Schiller pleaded guilty to manslaughter while his father James Schiller, 49, pleaded guilty to being an accessory to aggravated assault. Both pleas were…
In a rare, if not unprecedented decision in the Northwest Territories, a Supreme Court judge has lifted a publication ban on the name of a victim of a sexual assault and forcible confinement in Ndilo in 2017. The victim, Cynthia Grandjambe of Yellowknife, had requested that the ban be lifted…
A sentencing hearing began in Supreme Court in Yellowknife Thursday for a Ndilo man convicted of two counts of sexual assault and one count of forcible confinement. Peter Tsetta, 50, was found guilty by a judge in August. Court heard he held two women against their will at his home…
RCMP say they have charged a Tuktoyaktuk man with attempted murder after a shooting in that community back on September 22. CKLB first reported that Mounties were called just before 9:00 pm that Sunday after the shooting outside a residence. Police say a 43-year-old man was found inside a nearby…
A Yellowknife teenager who nearly stabbed a drug dealer to death, stole his marijuana and beat up a jail guard at the North Slave Correctional Complex (NSCC) has been sentenced to four and a half years in a federal prison. Jordan Charlie, 19, was handed his punishment in territorial court…