Tag Archives: Crime & Courts
Campbell River woman handed 13-year prison sentence for drug trafficking
CAMPBELL RIVER - A lengthy jail sentence was applied to a woman who pleaded guilty in connection to highly publicized drug busts in Campbell River. Leah Marie Lewis, 57, was handed 13 years behind bar...
Aug 08, 2025
Trial of former Kamloops lawyer accused in client's killing resumes after month-long break
VANCOUVER - After a little more than a month off, the first-degree murder trial for a former Kamloops lawyer resumed Thursday (Aug. 7) out of Vancouver Law Courts. What has been heard so farRogelio 'B...
Aug 07, 2025
Into Thin Air - Fred Yellow Old Woman | Family returns to Tk'emlúps for answers in sudden disappearance
TK'EMLUPS - Fred Yellow Old Woman comes from a close-knit family, and though he's been missing since 2011, his relatives are drawn back to the Kamloops area every year in search of answers."It's been ...
Aug 01, 2025
RCMP looking for information after break-in at Kamloops Mayor's West Victoria businesses
KAMLOOPS - Police are asking people who may have information about a recent break-in at the West Victoria Street auto dealership owned by Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson to step forward.In a news re...
Aug 01, 2025
Into Thin Air - Sherri McLaughlin | No arrests, no answers in Kamloops woman's disappearance
KAMLOOPS - It's been more than 30 years since 20-year-old Sherri McLaughlin went missing from a Brocklehurst neighbourhood. To this day, she hasn't been found, and nobody has been arrested. "For mysel...
Jul 18, 2025
Adjournment decision expected Tuesday on Hamer-Jackson's defamation suit against Neustaeter
KAMLOOPS - Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson, and councillor Katie Neustaeter were in BC civil court on Monday (July 7), hearing an adjournment application filed by Hamer-Jackson late last week. Hamer...
Jul 07, 2025
Kamloops man found not criminally responsible in fatal North Shore stabbing due to 'mental disorder'
KAMLOOPS - A Kamloops man has been found guilty, but not criminally responsible in connection with a stabbing at a North Shore apartment in March 2020 that killed one man and injured three others.In K...
Jul 04, 2025
Kamloops RCMP investigating after man found by roadside ten months ago dies of injuries
KAMLOOPS - Police in Kamloops have released the identity of a man who recently succumbed to injures he suffered nearly a year ago, as they try to determine what led to his death.In a statement Monday ...
Jun 23, 2025
Forensic accountant tells trial how accused Kamloops lawyer blew through murdered client's $774k
VANCOUVER - A first-degree murder trial for a former Kamloops lawyer accused of killing his client is hearing critical expert testimony this week. Monday (June 16), a forensic accountant testified to ...
Jun 16, 2025
Witness recollection of 2020 North Shore stabbing spree cross-examined
KAMLOOPS - The trial of a Kamloops man accused in a violent stabbing incident that killed one person and injured three others continued this week at the Kamloops Law Courts. Michael Wayne Palmer is ch...
Jun 11, 2025
