Crime & Courts

VIDEO: Concerned Nanaimo residents & business owners demand justice reform, safety improvements

NANAIMO - Over 150 people descended onto the back lawn of the Nanaimo courthouse demanding action against offenders plaguing the downtown.The rally on Wednesday, Sep. 14 was supported by a number of b...

Sep 14, 2022

Mental evaluation ordered for man accused of stabbing Nanaimo couple in their home

NANAIMO - A psychiatric assessment will help determine if a man accused in a brutal stabbing just prior to last Christmas is fit to stand trial.A provincial court judge accepted a defence application ...

Sep 07, 2022

Apparent random stabbing at Maffeo Sutton Park triggers homicide investigation

NANAIMO - Local Mounties have opened the city's fourth homicide investigation of the year after a stabbing along Nanaimo's waterfront.Two people, a 19-year-old man and a 17-year-old boy are in police ...

Sep 06, 2022

Thieves flee with cash after knife-point robbery at Nanaimo 7-Eleven

NANAIMO - Police are looking for two men in relation to an early morning armed robbery at the Terminal Ave. 7-Eleven. Nanaimo RCMP say just before 5:00 a.m. on Saturday, Aug. 20, two men walked into t...

Aug 29, 2022

Nanaimo woman receives four more days in jail for multiple fraud schemes

NANAIMO - A local woman will spend another four days in jail after pleading guilty to defrauding Island businesses out of thousands of dollars.Stevie Daniele Pirart, 30, was sentenced to 165 days in j...

Alex Rawnsley Aug 26, 2022

Nanaimo RCMP seek man accused of taking voyeuristic picture of unsuspecting woman

NANAIMO - RCMP hope the public can help identify a man who they say pointed his phone up the skirt of a woman at the Dollarama location on Bruce Ave.Nanaimo RCMP Res. Cst. Gary O'Brien said the incide...

Aug 22, 2022

Substantial drug busts lands Nanaimo woman prison sentence

NANAIMO - A deal brokered between the Crown and defence likely saved a Nanaimo woman several additional years behind bars after she pleaded guilty to half a dozen drug and weapons charges.Tasha Luan L...

Aug 22, 2022

Aggravated assault charge laid following weekend downtown Nanaimo stabbing

NANAIMO - A local woman is facing a single charge of aggravated assault after allegedly stabbing a man in the head.Kimberly Anne Lewis, 51, was formally charged following a Sunday, Aug. 14 incident wh...

Aug 17, 2022

Bacon pleads guilty to lesser murder charge in death of Nanaimo teen Makayla Chang

NANAIMO - Steven Michael Bacon has formally admitted to killing Makayla Chang, but the murder charge he was facing has been downgraded.During a Monday, Aug. 15 appearance in B.C. Supreme Court in Nana...

Aug 15, 2022

Woman arrested after stabbing man 'several' times near Nanaimo transit exchange

NANAIMO - A 27-year-old man remains in hospital in stable condition after being stabbed multiple times in downtown Nanaimo.RCMP say the violent incident happened on Front St., near the transit exchang...

Aug 15, 2022