Tag Archives: Crime & Courts
Notorious Nanaimo criminal receives 9 year sentence for brutal assault, drug possession
NANAIMO - Nearly beating a man to death and having close to $1 million in hard drugs earned a prolific Nanaimo criminal nine years behind bars. Colin Lamontagne was sentenced at the Supreme Court of B...
Jul 19, 2019 Colin Lamontagne, who had grown out his beard and looked less puffy during his sentencing hearing on Friday, July 19. (Nanaimo RCMP)
Defence calling no evidence in case of German tourist shot west of Calgary
CALGARY - The defence is calling no evidence on behalf of a youth accused of shooting a German tourist in the head on a highway west of Calgary last summer. The teen from the Stoney Nakoda First ...
Jul 18, 2019
Interviews with family of highway shooting victim heard in Calgary court
CALGARY - The trial of an Alberta youth accused of firing a gun at a German tourist on a highway west of Calgary is having to rely on police interviews done with the family after he was shot...
Jul 17, 2019
Joaquin 'El Chapo' Guzman sentenced to life in prison
NEW YORK - The Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has been sentenced to life behind bars in a U.S. prison, a humbling end for a drug lord once notorious for his ability to kill, bribe or t...
Jul 17, 2019
Fake gun sparked Woodgrove Shopping Centre evacuation
NANAIMO - The incredible scene at Woodgrove Shopping Centre late Monday afternoon was sparked by a male youth with an imitation firearm. Nanaimo RCMP Sgt. Jon Stuart confirmed Tuesday the suspect repo...
Jul 16, 2019 Upwards of 20 Nanaimo RCMP officers descended on Woodgrove Shopping Centre Monday night and evacuated the mall. (Spencer Sterritt/NanaimoNewsNOW)
Youth male in Nanaimo RCMP custody after Woodgrove Shopping Centre evacuation
NANAIMO - Nanaimo's largest mall was shut down at approximately 5:30 on Monday afternoon as RCMP investigated an "active situation." RCMP Sgt. Jon Stuart confirmed to NanaimoNewsNow a youth was spotte...
Jul 15, 2019 Woodgrove Centre in Nanaimo was evacuated Monday afternoon shortly before closing as police entered with heavy weapons, handling an 'active situation'. (Spencer Sterritt)
Trial begins for Alberta youth charged with shooting German tourist
CALGARY - A court has heard that a German tourist shot while driving on a highway west of Calgary last year had eight bullet fragments removed from his brain during surgery. A trial has begun for...
Jul 15, 2019
Would-be thieves attempt late-night Nanaimo bank robbery
NANAIMO - An attempted bank robbery like something out of a movie was thwarted by the rising sun and loud noise. Two people, one of which is believed to be a woman, were seen by security cameras outsi...
Jul 11, 2019 Two people, one of whom is believed to be a woman, outside Nanaimo's north Scotiabank. (Nanaimo RCMP)
Contractor at centre of Nanaimo's hotly contested tree removal bylaw
NANAIMO - A contractor out tens of thousands of dollars for illegally cutting down a large tree faces further losses, prior to a judge issuing a potentially hefty fine.A sentencing hearing for Dwayne ...
Jul 08, 2019 This large Douglas Fir was illegally chopped down from a Jingle Pot Rd. property in January, 2017. Contractor Dwayne Macintyre is awaiting how much his fine for the offence will be. (CHEK News)
Trial date set for legal dispute over Newcastle temporary housing
NANAIMO - The process for introducing roughly 80 units of temporary housing into a downtown Nanaimo neighbourhood will be examined in the courts. Newcastle area residents will be in the Supreme Court ...
Jul 08, 2019 Island Crisis Care Society and the province will be in court on Sept. 30 for a lawsuit disputing how roughly 80 units of temporary housing were introduced into the Newcastle neighbourhood. (Spencer Sterritt/NanaimoNewsNOW)