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…
An Aklavik man had to be medevaced to Edmonton with life-threatening injuries following an assault. About 4:40 p.m. on Sunday, October 6, Aklavik RCMP responded to call of a man lying on the ground in front of a residence. When RCMP arrived, community members were on their way to the…
A Yellowknife city councillor says she has a difficult time believing the RCMP’s claim that officers conducted 51 downtown foot patrols in August, including about 15 of them aimed at the sobering centre and day shelter on 50th Street. Stacie Smith, who also operates a flower shop at the YK…
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…
Two people have been arrested and charged after RCMP in Inuvik conducted a drug raid at a residence in that community. According to a news release from the Mounties, a digital scale with suspected crack cocaine residue, cellular devices and a large sum of Canadian currency were seized during the…
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…
Charges have been significantly reduced for a Yellowknife father and son duo who were originally charged with second-degree murder in the death of a Yellowknife taxi cab driver in November 2018. Elias Schiller, 19, is now charged with manslaughter and his father, 49-year-old James Schiller now faces a charge of…