The Inuvik RCMP are looking for the public’s help to solve an alleged mischief incident that caused extensive water damage to an apartment building on Mackenzie Road last Dec. According to an RCMP news release, when police arrived at the building on the morning of Dec. 21, 2019, a large…
Yesterday evening, Fort Smith RCMP asked residents to stay inside as a “situation was unfolding.” That situation turned out to be the arrest of a one youth in connection to an armed robbery. In a news release, police said two youths have been arrested for the robbery. Police first received…
The Yellowknife RCMP have charged a man in connection with the armed and barricaded situation which occurred in Sunridge Place apartments last week. Man taken into custody after report of ‘armed and barricaded situation’ According to an RCMP news release, Lance Kristensen, 29, is charged with two counts of Uttering…
There was a tense situation in N’Dilo Friday night after a man barricaded himself in a residence with access to firearms. According to an RCMP news release, “On March 27, close to midnight, the Yellowknife RCMP were dispatched to check on the well-being of a 49-year-old man, who barricaded himself…
On Tuesday evening, Yellowknife RCMP blocked off a street due to a report of an armed and barricaded situation. A news release does not make clear what the situation was. The release says police responded to multiple complaints of a loud disturbance coming from Sunridge Place apartments on 51A Ave.,…
A young Yellowknife mother has been sentenced to 21 months in jail after she pleaded guilty to robbing two Yellowknife convenience stores – one at knifepoint – and assaulting two jail guards at the Fort Smith correctional centre for women. Cynthia Lafferty, 21, appeared in territorial court Friday by telephone…
A man has been sentenced to four months in jail after he pleaded guilty to assaulting a female Elder at a small house party in Fort Simpson last month and assaulting the two RCMP officers who had come to arrest him Joey Moses, 25, appeared via video in territorial court…
RCMP in Yellowknife has arrested two suspects in connection with an armed robbery at Circle K which occurred early Tuesday morning. RCMP investigate early morning armed robbery at Circle K gas bar in Yellowknife According to an RCMP news release, “A search warrant was executed at a residence” on Tuesday…
A sentencing hearing in Yellowknife for a star from the reality TV series Ice Road Truckers has been delayed. Arthur Burke, 65, pleaded guilty last month to the rare charge of arson by negligence for accidentally causing an explosion at a downtown Yellowknife apartment in November of 2018. CKLB initially…
The RCMP is investigating an armed robbery that occurred early Tuesday morning in Yellowknife. According to an RCMP news release, “At approximately 12:42 a.m. on Tuesday, March 17, Yellowknife RCMP responded to an armed robbery at the Circle K Convenience Store, located at the corner of Forrest Drive and Franklin…