RCMP Watch

Craig Babstock (Times & Transcript) - A motorist was stopped by an RCMP officer in September 2006 on Highway 2 (the Trans-Canada Highway), near Berry Mills, with two duffel bags full of marijuana.
He was charged with being in possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking, but a Moncton judge recently acquitted him after ruling [...]

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Chad Skelton and Allison Cross (Vancouver Sun) - Animosity between the RCMP and the Organized Crime Agency of B.C. resulted in the failure of a multi-million-dollar investigation into the Hells Angels, a former lead investigator with the OCABC has alleged in a wrongful dismissal suit.
The investigation, known as Project Phoenix, targeted several high-profile members of [...]

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Ottawa, ON (Canadian Press) The Supreme Court of Canada has quashed the conviction of a British Columbia man for molesting three children, ruling that the RCMP “knowingly and deliberately” violated the Charter of Rights during their investigation.
In a 9-0 judgment Thursday, the court ordered a new trial for Dieter Wittwer, 73, described at a Kelowna, [...]

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Paul Walton (Nanaimo Daily News) - A Nanaimo provincial court judge, in dropping a charge against a local man of assaulting police, instead blamed a Nanaimo Mountie for creating the violent confrontation.
The decision was handed by Judge Allan Gould on Monday in staying charges of assault police and uttering threats against Shane Owen, 48.
On Nov. [...]

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(CBC News) Mission, B.C. - A man arrested in the armed robbery of a convenience store on Friday has escaped from custody in Mission, B.C.
RCMP offered few details on David Glen Moody’s escape, except to say that he was outside the detachment when he assaulted his escort, ran down an embankment and made his getaway [...]

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Keith Fraser (Vancouver Province) - A Maple Ridge man is suing the owner of a horse and a Mountie after he suffered serious injuries when his motorcycle struck the animal in the middle of the Lougheed Highway in Deroche last July.
Jeffery Matthew McNair says in a statement of claim that the horse owner, Teresa Kelly, [...]

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(ctvbc.ca) - More than a week after someone killed three children in Merritt, a man who was once an inspector with the RCMP says the police could have done more to catch their prime suspect.
Police didn’t employ basic tools such as a roadblock to catch fugitive Allan Schoenborn, said Bill Majcher, a retired RCMP officer.
“I [...]

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Patrick Brethour, Vancouver, B.C. (Globe and Mail) - Any stranger sticks out in tiny Cherryville, B.C., population 900, where the gas station doubles as the local liquor store.
But to the two clerks working at the Cherryville Emporium on Wednesday afternoon, the diminutive slow-speaking man who came in looking to cash in 10 beer cans stuck [...]

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(CTV.ca News Staff) - RCMP deputy commissioner Barbara George said Sunday that she’s being punished for refusing to apologize for something she didn’t do.
On Thursday, George became the first person in 95 years to be held in contempt of Parliament after a vote that ruled she deliberately misled MPs during an appearance before the Public [...]

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(CBC News) - MPs voted Thursday to find the RCMP’s deputy commissionerin contempt of Parliament, accusing her of misleading the House of Commons with the testimony she provided into the so-called pension scandal.
The motion to find Barbara George in contempt was introduced by Liberal Shawn Murphy, who heads the public accounts committee that heard her [...]

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