Tag Archives: Crime & Courts

Innisfail man arrested for stolen vehicle, property near Ponoka
Mounties in Ponoka have charged an Innisfail man following a complaint of a suspicious vehicle that occurred on October 19.At 9:55 a.m., Ponoka RCMP responded to a 911 call of a suspicious S.U.V. stuc...
Oct 23, 2019

McMillan wildfire caused by arsonist, police say
EDMONTON- Arson was the cause of the McMillan wildfire in May that threatened remote communities in north-central Alberta and torched 2,730 square kilometres of forest.RCMP and Alberta government offi...
Oct 23, 2019 (Photo: The Canadian Press)

Collicutt Centre locked down for police search
The Collicutt Centre in east Red Deer was put on lockdown Monday morning, marking the third time in less than a week that RCMP were called to the recreation facility.The lockdown was put in place just...
Oct 21, 2019 (rdnewsNOW/Sheldon Spackman)

New members, expanded duties for Citizens on Patrol
,A recent recruiting drive that helped Red Deer Citizens on Patrol (COP) welcome 14 new members is also helping them expand the work they do to help police make the community safer. COP is teaming up ...
Oct 18, 2019

Drug charges pending after driver nabbed for hit and run in Sylvan Lake
Some alert citizens helped Sylvan Lake RCMP arrest a man wanted following a hit and run incident this morning. Mounties responded to a 911 complaint of a hit and run with a parked vehicle in the Fox R...
Oct 17, 2019

RCMP eyeing efficiencies at Sylvan Lake, Rimbey detachments
RCMP are looking to explore efficiencies and deliver a better policing model through a proposed pilot project recently shared with Sylvan Lake Town Council. At their meeting on Tuesday, council heard ...
Oct 17, 2019

Torrington Hotel robbed at gunpoint
The hunt is on for a man and woman who robbed the Torrington Hotel at gunpoint last night. Olds RCMP say it was about 9:30 p.m. when the pair pulled up to the hotel in an older white pickup truck desc...
Oct 17, 2019 (Olds RCMP)

Torrington man arrested following domestic dispute with firearm
A man is in custody charges pending following a domestic dispute involving a firearm Wednesday afternoon in Torrington.It was at about 1: 15 p.m. when Olds RCMP responded to report of a distraught fem...
Oct 17, 2019

Alberta introduces legislation allowing access to partner's criminal records
EDMONTON - Alberta is introducing legislation first developed in Britain that allows people in abusive relationships to request information about a partner's criminal record. Premier Ja...
Oct 16, 2019

New head of Red Deer RCMP Downtown Unit confident they're making a difference
The new head of the Red Deer RCMP Downtown Unit is confident that the work they've been doing since launching a year ago is making a difference. Cpl. Dwayne Hanusich came to Red Deer with his family s...
Oct 16, 2019 Cpl. Dwayne Hanusich is the head of the Red Deer RCMP Downtown Unit. (rdnewsNOW/Troy Gillard)