RCMP Watch

Mayerthorpe, Alberta (Government of Canada Press Release) - Prime Minister Stephen Harper today attended the Official Opening and Statue Unveiling of the Fallen Four Memorial Park, a tribute to the four RCMP officers who were murdered at a nearby farm on March 3, 2005, in what was the worst single-day loss of life for the RCMP [...]

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Stony Plain, A.B. (Canadian Press) - A judge ruled yesterday that there is enough evidence to send two men to trial for first-degree murder in the deaths of four Alberta RCMP officers.
The officers were gunned down by James Roszko on his property near Mayerthorpe, Alta., in March, 2005.
Shawn Hennessey, 28, and his brother-in-law Dennis Cheeseman, [...]

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Kim Bolan (Vancouver Sun) - Metro Vancouver resident Fiona Flanagan is spitting mad.
Nineteen years after her Mountie husband Derek was killed on the job in Thailand, the painful case is being dredged up again by an admitted heroin importer who was targeted by police in an international smuggling probe.
In recent days, Alain Olivier has been [...]

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(CBC News) - The RCMP members association is demanding the federal government redo its investigation into the Mayerthorpe killings, claiming that the probe that was done lacked independence, CBC News has learned.
The association, which represents members of the force, is filing a formal complaint about the Mayerthorpe report prepared in February 2007 by Human Resources [...]

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Jack Wilson, Wetaskiwin, Alberta (Canadian Press) - A truck driver found guilty of dangerous driving causing death for smashing into an Alberta RCMP officer’s cruiser has escaped jail time.
Marvin George Smith, 61, was given a two-year conditional sentence in Wetaskiwin, court yesterday following his conviction last November.
He was also found guilty of dangerous driving causing [...]

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Elise Stolte (Edmonton Journal) - A truck driver handed a conditional sentence Thursday for killing RCMP Const. Jose Agostinho stood trial 10 years earlier for hitting another officer on the same stretch of road a decade ago, The Journal has learned.
The wives of both officers sat in the gallery as the sentence was read Thursday [...]

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(CBC News) - Vandals have attacked the Red Deer grave of a Mountie who was killed near Mayerthorpe, Alta., almost three years ago, in what police are calling “an embarrassing and disgusting act.”
The vandals chipped the headstone, destroyed flowers and stole mementos from Const. Anthony Gordon’s headstone at Red Deer’s Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery, Red [...]

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Dan Singleton (Calgary Herald) - The Red Deer gravesite of one of four RCMP officers killed in the Mayerthorpe shooting in March 2005 has been desecrated, say police.
Doreen Jewell-Duffy, mother of Const. Anthony Gordon, found vandalism during a visit to the gravesite in the Mount Calvary Catholic Cemetery on Sunday.
Damage included the smashing of [...]

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Edmonton, AB (Canadian Press) - The RCMP is in danger of losing more officers in the North just when it is being called upon to post more of them to remote communities.
“They are overworked. They are not getting the human resources that they need,” said Jodie Worden, the widow of Const. Christopher Worden, 30, who [...]

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Pete Fisher, Cobourg, ON (Sun Media)  - After a long bureaucratic battle that sparked a growing furor, changes have been made so slain Const. Chris Garrett can be considered for the Cross of Valour.
The governor general’s office said it has officially received word that the Canadian Bravery Decorations Regulations have been amended and Garrett’s application [...]

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