Crime & Courts

Weapons, stolen property seized from Red Deer home in multi-agency bust

A joint investigation by Red Deer RCMP, K Division Emergency Response Team and the Edmonton Police Service has resulted in the laying of 141 charges and two people being arrested. Police say the inves...

Jan 29, 2020 (Photo: Red Deer RCMP)

RCMP searching for man charged with first-degree murder in Wetaskiwin

WETASKIWIN - RCMP in central Alberta say they are searching for a 27-year-old man charged with first-degree murder.Mounties say that Ryan Jake Applegarth is wanted in a homicide earlier this month in ...

Jan 28, 2020 Ryan Jake Applegarth

Authorities deal with ‘nuisance property’ in Eastview

Complaints from neighbouring residents led to a nuisance property in Red Deer's Eastview neighbourhood being dealt with by local authorities last week. On Wednesday, Jan. 22, Red Deer RCMP, The City o...

Jan 28, 2020

Lethbridge College campus evacuated over threat

LETHBRIDGE - Thousands of students and staff were evacuated from the Lethbridge College campus just before 1:00 p.m. on Tuesday.Inspector Jason Dobirstein with Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) says an ...

Jan 28, 2020 Police on scene at Lethbridge College Tuesday afternoon(Lethbridge News Now)

Woman charged for fatal pedestrian crash at O’Chiese First Nation

Charges are pending against a 22-year-old woman following the death of a teenage girl who was struck by a vehicle on the O'Chiese First Nation.It was just before 6 a.m. Saturday when Rocky Mountain Ho...

Jan 28, 2020

Guilty plea from woman charged in stabbing death at Sunchild First Nation

Sentencing will take place in March for a woman who admitted to the stabbing death of another woman on the Sunchild First Nation 13 months ago.Chelsey Lagrelle, 24, pleaded guilty to one count of mans...

Jan 27, 2020

'Necessary' for Edmonton officers to shoot armed suspect in 2017: watchdog

EDMONTON - Alberta's police watchdog says three Edmonton officers used "necessary" force in the fatal shooting of an armed suspect in 2017.The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team says the 30-year-o...

Jan 27, 2020

B.C. man dies from “firearms-related injury” east of Airdrie

Police are investigating after a man from B.C is dead after suffering a "firearms-related injury" east of Airdrie. It was on Thursday at around 3:00 p.m. when Beiseker RCMP received a complaint of a f...

Jan 25, 2020

Body found in burned out Wetaskiwin hotel, RCMP investigating

Wetaskiwin RCMP and the Major Crimes Unit are investigating after human remains were discovered in what was left of a local hotel that went up in flames earlier this month.Shortly before midnight on J...

Jan 25, 2020

Rocky RCMP Report Jan 16-23

This is a report released to the media from the Rocky Mountain House (RMH) RCMP giving a brief description of various crimes and call-ins, both solved and unsolved throughout the community between the...

Jan 23, 2020