A traffic stop by the High Level RCMP in northern Alberta has led to a Yellowknife man being charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking. On Feb. 19, RCMP say the stopped a vehicle within the town limits of High Level. According to an RCMP news release,…
A star of the reality television show Ice Road Truckers has pleaded guilty in a Yellowknife courtroom to “arson by negligence” for causing an explosion while trying to make shatter, a form of cannabis resin, not unlike hashish. CKLB has chosen not to use the 65-year-old man’s name because this…
A Yellowknife man has been found not guilty of drug trafficking charges while his co-accused, a man from Edmonton, has been convicted of possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking as well as possession of the proceeds of crime. Gary Gattie, 52, with a shaved head and dressed in…
RCMP in the Northwest Territories are reporting that officers seized about a pound of crack cocaine from a vehicle near Enterprise, south of Hay River According to a news release from the Mounties, police from the RCMP’s Federal Investigations Unit (FIU) stopped a northbound vehicle believed to be on route…
A man from the Tlicho community of Gameti, charged with murder in the death of Archie Wedzin in Behchoko last year, has now pleaded to the lesser charge of manslaughter. Alecus Quitte, 22, entered the plea in Supreme Court in Yellowknife on Monday morning. According to his lawyer, Quitte has…
Two men are charged under the Northwest Territories Liquor Act after RCMP say they sold alcohol in downtown Yellowknife to vulnerable residents. Police state in an email that through an investigation that began in November and ended last month, the NT RCMP General Investigation Section and Crime Reduction Unit charged…
Fort Simpson RCMP is investigating after a series of break and enters that occurred over the last several months at the local post office. Mounties state in a news release that the Fort Simpson Canada Post office has been the victim of three separate break and enters on September 3rd,…
Yellowknife RCMP have confirmed that an Indigenous woman was forced to spend 11 straight days and nights jailed in an RCMP holding cell over the Christmas holidays. CKLB is choosing not to use the young woman’s name at this time. She says she was arrested for breaching her bail conditions….
It’s taken two days for the RCMP to tell the public there was a school lockdown in Tsiigetchic earlier this week. In a news release sent Thursday morning, Fort McPherson RCMP said it received a call on Tuesday about a potential threat at the Chief Paul Niditchie school. Richard Andre,…
Zoe update Feb 4/20 A man originally from the North Slave community of Gameti, who had been declared a dangerous offender after convictions for multiple sexual assaults, will get a new dangerous offender hearing. According to a NWT Court of Appeal decision released late last week, 38-year-old Bobby Zoe should…