Tag Archives: Crime & Courts
Multiple RCMP units deal with barricaded man in Granum home
GRANUM, AB. -- RCMP units from Fort Macleod and Claresholm converged on Granum early Tuesday (Mar 16) evening to deal with an ongoing incident.RCMP shut down highway-519 from the west and east heading...
Mar 16, 2021
LPS investigation results in seizure of more than a kilo of meth
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- Two people have been arrested and charges are pending against a third, in relation to a short-term drug trafficking investigation that resulted in the seizure of methamphetamine. On...
Mar 10, 2021
Fort Macleod RCMP investigate theft of Indigenous regalia
FORT MACLEOD, AB. -- RCMP are asking the public for information on a break-in and robbery at F-M Storage in Fort Macleod. A storage unit was broken into on the weekend of February 19 to the 21 and num...
Mar 10, 2021
'Vast majority' of officers committed to bias-free policing: Alberta police chief
LETHBRIDGE, ALBERTA, CANADA - The chief of the Lethbridge Police Service says it will co-operate fully with a probe into officers who allegedly made unauthorized checks on a provincial cabinet ministe...
Mar 10, 2021
NewsAlert; Alberta Appeal Court orders 3rd trial for David and Collet Stephan
CALGARY, AB. -- Alberta's top court has ordered a third trial for a couple originally convicted then found not guilty in the death of their ill son.The Alberta Court of Appeal has granted a request by...
Mar 08, 2021
CP NewsAlert: Alberta Appeal Court orders 3rd trial for parents in toddler's death
CALGARY - Alberta's top court has ordered a third trial for a couple originally convicted then found not guilty in the death of their ill son. The Alberta Court of Appeal has granted a request by the ...
Mar 08, 2021
Calgary man pleads guilty in deaths of girlfriend, mother, stepfather
CALGARY - A Calgary man has admitted to killing his girlfriend, mother and stepfather in 2018. Prosecutor Shane Parker says Dustin Duthie pleaded guilty to the second-degree murders of Taylor Toller a...
Mar 02, 2021
Residential north side fire deemed suspicious
LETHBRIDGE, AB. -- City police, working with the city`s fire department, have confirmed a north-side residential fire is deemed suspicious. 24 firefighters from four stations attended the single-famil...
Mar 02, 2021
Supreme Court of Canada to look at sentence in Lethbridge court case
OTTAWA, Ont. - The Supreme Court of Canada will look at the constitutionality of a mandatory minimum penalty of four years in prison for recklessly firing a gun.The court has agreed to hear the appeal...
Feb 18, 2021
Feds would allow municipalities to ban handguns under new bill
OTTAWA - Newly tabled gun legislation would allow municipalities to ban handguns through bylaws restricting their possession, storage and transportation. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Tuesday (Fe...
Feb 16, 2021