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Featured, Health, News, Police August 30, 2024

Dangerous experimental drug seizure prompts public health warning

Para-flurofentanyl was detected in recent drug bust enroute to Yellowknife, prompting Chief Public Health Officer's to raise alarm


A potentially lethal synthetic drug created for research purposes in the 1960s but was never intended for human use has been seized in the NWT, prompting a public health warning. Para-flurofentanyl was detected in a recent drug seizure enroute to Yellowknife, prompting the Chief Public Health Officer to issue a…

Featured, News, Police August 27, 2024

Two Inuvik women charged with murder, performing an indignity to human remains

Thirty-nine-year-old man found dead behind a building early Sunday morning; court later issues publication ban on details of scene


Two Inuvik women are charged with murder and performing an indignity to human remains after a man was found dead behind a building early Sunday morning. After Inuvik RCMP received a report that a body had been in the Beaufort Delta community, they discovered the 39-year-old man. As a result…

Featured, Law courts, News, Police August 23, 2024

Convicted Edmonton drug dealer barred from NWT for three years after he serves jail sentence

Nineteen-year-old Abel Leule initially slipped past RCMP after raid on Fort Smith residence in fall of 2023, to be later arrest in Fort Resolution


The general public is the best source of information police have in combating drug trafficking, and the RCMP have a recent conviction as an example of that co-operation. And a recent sentencing of a dealer who last year was peddling crack and Percocet pills in Fort Smith – and later…

Featured, News, Police August 21, 2024

Fake bills with Chinese characters saying ‘for counting practice’ circulating in Inuvik

Inuvik RCMP asks residents to pay special attention to bill transactions


Inuvik RCMP are warning residents about fake Canadian bills printed with Chinese characters after receiving several reports. The Chinese characters translate to ‘counting practice bill’, with a line at the bottom stating ‘for counting practice only, circulations are forbidden’. These particular bills caused similar issues when they first appeared seven…

Featured, Justice, Law courts, Police August 7, 2024

Senior Beaufort Delta educator charged with sexual crimes against children

Education Council assistant supt. Richard Steven McKinnon’s alleged offences occurred in Inuvik and Ulukhaktok between 2018 and 2020


A senior employee of the Beaufort Delta Education Council has been charged with multiple sexual offences alleged to have occurred in Inuvik and Ulukhaktok between 2018 and 2020. Forty-four-year-old Richard Steven McKinnon, assistant superintendent of the Beaufort Delta Education Council, was arrested by RCMP on August 5 and subsequently charged…

Featured, News, Police August 1, 2024

Mega meth haul by city RCMP also nabs two handguns

Twenty-one-year-old Musab Ibrahim of Saskatoon, faces seven drug-and weapons-related charges


Squatters in a recently vacated Yellowknife apartment were sitting on one-kilogram of methamphetamine – likely the largest seizure ever of the psychoactive stimulant in the NWT. It all began on May 22, when city RCMP received a report that several people were unlawfully inside an empty apartment, reads a release….

Featured, News, Police August 1, 2024

RCMP seized 169 bottles of bootleg liquor in Fort McPherson

These seizures were from several investigations into bootlegging in July


Fort McPherson RCMP say they have seized a total of 169 bottles of illicit liquor from several investigations into bootlegging activity in July. Several charges were laid under the Liquor Act, but the police didn’t identify any offenders. “These seizures represent a substantial amount of lost profits for bootleggers,” says…