Tag Archives: Crime & Courts

Mounties respond to incident at Collicutt Centre
City Mounties responded to another incident at the Collicutt Centre on Wednesday. Police were called during the noon hour after Red Deer RCMP Cpl. Karyn Kay says threats were made by one person toward...
Oct 16, 2019 (rdnewsNOW/Sheldon Spackman)

Rocky RCMP charge two with drug trafficking
Rocky Mountain House RCMP have charged two adults following a vehicle stop that netted evidence of drug trafficking.On Friday, the Rocky Mountain House RCMP General Investigation Section was engaged i...
Oct 16, 2019

City council supports proposed changes to police funding model
Red Deer city council is supporting, in principle, the province's plan to have smaller communities in Alberta pay for policing. Currently, communities with fewer than 5,000 people have their policing ...
Oct 15, 2019

Rocky RCMP Report: Oct. 10-17
This is a report released to the media from the Rocky Mountain House RCMP giving a brief description of various crimes and call-ins, both solved and unsolved throughout the community between the dates...
Oct 15, 2019

Driver facing charges after fleeing traffic stop, colliding with RCMP vehicle
Mounties are continuing their investigation into a short police pursuit north of Ponoka on Saturday that ended with an RCMP vehicle being struck and an officer suffering minor injuries.The incident be...
Oct 15, 2019 RCMP continue to investigate a collision between a police vehicle and suspect vehicle that fled a traffic stop along Highway 2A north of Ponoka on Saturday. (Photo Submitted)

Mounties investigating youth-involved fight outside Collicutt Centre
RCMP say charges are pending after two male youth got into a fight outside the Collicutt Centre in Red Deer Tuesday morning.Multiple units responded to the altercation at 10:45 a.m., with police sayin...
Oct 15, 2019 RCMP were called to the Collicutt Centre in Red Deer Tuesday morning to reports of a fight outside the facility. Mounties confirm two male youth suffered minor injuries and charges are pending.

Crown appealing verdict in Alberta meningitis case citing comments by judge
LETHBRIDGE, Alta. - The Crown is appealing the not guilty verdict in the case of an Alberta couple charged with not seeking medical help sooner for their sick toddler son. Last month Justice...
Oct 15, 2019

No lawyer yet for Sylvan Lake man charged with killing wife
A Sylvan Lake man charged with murdering his wife last month has yet to find a lawyer.Satnam Singh Sandhu, 41, made a brief appearance in Red Deer provincial court Friday morning.Sandhu remains in cus...
Oct 11, 2019

High-risk offender from Red Deer released from custody
In the interest of public safety, Red Deer RCMP are issuing a warning about the release of a high-risk offender from provincial custody. Police say Daniel Leonard, 42, of Red Deer has completed his se...
Oct 10, 2019 Daniel Leonard

Province assures rural municipalities will receive full police funding despite Opposition claims
Alberta's United Conservative government is denying any notion that rural municipalities will see cuts to their police funding of up to 70 per cent.Currently, policing services are covered in full by ...
Oct 10, 2019 Doug Schweitzer (rdnewsNOW file photo)