Crime & Courts

LPS hoping Council maintains crime suppression initiatives

LETHBRIDGE, AB- Lethbridge City Council sitting as Community Issues Committee on Monday (Feb 3), heard numerous presentations from local organizations and businesses, including the Lethbridge Police S...

Feb 04, 2020 Acting Police Chief Scott Woods -- LNN

Dangerous Offender hearing underway for 35-year-old Coaldale man

LETHBRIDGE, AB - Thousands of pages, including testimonies, correctional and penitentiary information, parole and psychiatric program records and prior records of convictions were introduced Monday, F...

Feb 03, 2020 Trevor Pritchard

City bike rider facing drug trafficking charges

LETHBRIDGE -- A 44-year old city man faces trafficking charges, after police seized methamphetamine from someone on a bicycle. Around 1:30 Saturday (Feb 1)morning, an officer conducted a traffic stop ...

Feb 03, 2020 Seized packages of Meth -- credit LPS

LPS seize stolen property and drugs; arrest seven

LETHBRIDGE -- An investigation into the theft of bikes in west Lethbridge and a break and enter on 13 Street South, resulted in a search warrant at a home in the 300-block of 20 Street North on Friday...

Feb 01, 2020 Drug and money seizure -photo credit to LPS

Bank in Trochu held up at gunpoint on Thursday

TROCHU, AB -- Police in Three Hills are asking for public assistance in identifying the lone suspect who held up the ATB financial institution in Trochu.It was Thursday, Jan. 30 at approximately 11:30...

Feb 01, 2020 Surveillance footage from the ATB in Trochu, Alta shows a lone suspect holding a gun during an alleged armed robbery on Jan. 30, 2020. (Supplied/RCMP)

Judge calls impaired driving case "exceptionally egregious"

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A Lethbridge Provincial Court judge called the circumstances surrounding an impaired driving case just before Christmas so bad, she imposed a harsher sentence on a 63-year-old man tha...

Jan 28, 2020 Lethbridge Courthouse

Mom accused of abducting child, taking him to Belize - pleads guilty to breach of court order

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A Lethbridge woman accused of abducting her child in 2014 and taking him to Belize, has pleaded guilty to one count of breach of a Canadian court order. A charge of child abduction ha...

Jan 24, 2020 Defense Lawyer Andre Ouellette

Alberta privacy commissioner opens investigation into ID scans at liquor stores

EDMONTON -- Alberta's privacy commissioner has opened an investigation into a liquor retailer's decision to test ID-scanning technology at its stores.Edmonton-based Alcanna Ltd., which runs Liquor Dep...

Jan 23, 2020 Liquor store - The Canadian Press

No additional time for woman convicted of arson, serving 30-month prison sentence

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A 28-year-old Lethbridge woman, already serving time in prison for robbery, won't spend any additional time in jail after she was sentenced Wednesday, Jan. 22 for two counts of arson....

Jan 23, 2020 Lethbridge Courthouse

Father found guilty of sexual assault and incest

LETHBRIDGE, AB - A jury of seven women and five men took just three -and -a -half hours to find a 54-year-old Raymond area man guilty of sexual assault, sexual interference, invitation to sexual touch...

Jan 22, 2020 Lethbridge Courthouse