NT RCMP is warning residents about a spike in fentanyl use after two recent overdoses. The first was on May 28 in Yellowknife; officers and paramedics arrived to find an unresponsive man. According to a police news release, paramedics managed to revive the man who later said he knew he…
A Yellowknife drug dealer has been found guilty of the relatively rare charge of criminal negligence causing bodily harm for giving the powerful painkiller Fentanyl to a woman who subsequently overdosed. She survived after being treated at Stanton Hospital two days later. Court heard she’d been in a coma-like state…
A trial for a Yellowknife man, facing three charges including criminal negligence causing bodily harm for allegedly selling fentanyl to a Yellowknife woman who then survived an overdose, is to resume Thursday morning. Darcy Oake, 24, is also on trial for possession of fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking and…