By Sam Borsato - @BorsatoSam on Twitter

Police Stayed Busy at 2016 Kainai Indian Days

Jul 21, 2016 | 4:38 PM

STAND OFF – Blood Tribe Police laid a total of 57 charges during the 50th annual Kainai Indian Days.

Those include, but are not limited to, failing to comply with a court order, drug possession and trafficking, a number of driving related offences, assault and many others.

Two men in particular were among those charged. Police say Jimmi Karnell Calling Bull of Edmonton was remanded into custody, and set to appear in Cardston Provincial Court on July 18 for drug possession and property charges.

Kacey Cole Shade also faces two counts each of assault and uttering threats, as well as five counts of breaching a probation order. Police arrested him on July 16, after finding him with a long barrel gun in a residence south of Stand Off. Shade is to appear in Cardston Provincial Court on August 15.

Police also responded to a number of medical calls.

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On the evening of July 15, they responded alongside EMS to an unresponsive male in the community of Moses Lake. The 34-year old was pronounced dead on scene, but the Medical Examiner ruled it as non-criminal. No other details were released.

Two other calls were made on July 17. At around 6-pm, a 10-year old boy was found unresponsive near Red Crow Park. He was transported to hospital, and later airlifted by STARS to the Alberta Children’s Hospital where he remains in the Intensive Care Unit. It’s suspected that the child suffered a medical incident while playing in the river.

Another 24-year old man was found unresponsive at approximately 10-pm that same day at the Indian Days pow wow. Emergency medication and CPR assisted in reviving him, and he was later taken to hospital. Police say indications on scene and at the hospital pointed to a drug overdose.

Anyone with information regarding these or any other incidents is urged to contact Blood Tribe Police at 403-737-3800, or oxy@bloodtribepolice.com. You can also submit tips to Crime Stoppers.