The chief of police in Peterborough, Ont., says to let the evidence in court speak for itself in relation to both a convenience store clerk and a suspect being charged in a violent robbery attempt last week. Social media reaction has poured in since police on Tuesday reported on the dual charges stemming from an
For five years in the early 1990s, Keith Jesperson, a B.C.-born long-haul trucker, crisscrossed the western United States in his truck, killing women he met along the way. From 1990 to 1995 he killed at least eight women, ensuring his notoriety by sending anonymous confession letters to journalists and investigators which he often signed with
Ontario’s police watchdog says it is looking into the death of a young woman at a home in Thunder Bay after it says police did not respond to a domestic disturbance call. The victim’s family identified her to Motorcycle accident toronto today as Jenna Ostberg, a 21-year-old First Nations woman.The Special Investigations Unit (SIU) said in a release
Descrease article font size Increase article font size RCMP in Surrey, B.C., say they’ve arrested two men in connection with an extortion racket that has been terrifying Lower Mainland business owners. In a media release, Mounties said the men, both in their 20s, were arrested in a residential area of Cloverdale on Thursday, but have
WARNING: Some of the details in this story are disturbing. Discretion is advised. The death of a woman in Mexico is now under investigation and her friends and family are demanding justice.Val Vardabasso, 58, originally from B.C. and now living in Puerto Peñasco, also known as Rocky Point, just south of the border with Arizona
An Alberta woman is seeking justice after she said her life was ruined and her mom’s life was “taken” by a romance scam. “These people took everything from my mother,” Chantel Westguard told Motorcycle accident toronto today.Westguard is referring to several people involved in an elaborate and long-lasting romance scam, including a man claiming to be a
Toddler killer Jon Venables will stay behind bars after a parole board rejected his bid for freedom. Venables was just 10 years old when he and his friend, Robert Thompson, who was also 10 at the time, lured two-year-old James Bulger away from his mother at a shopping centre in northern England in 1993 and
A suspended Surrey RCMP officer accused of using his position of authority to engage in intimate relationships with women — both on and off-duty — likely won’t face traditional jail time, a sentencing hearing in B.C. provincial court has heard. Judge Grace Oh reserved her sentencing decision on Cpl. Peter Leckie, who pleaded guilty Oct.
Christopher Beausoleil just went to out to do some Christmas shopping at a central Edmonton mall when he found himself looking down the barrel of a sawed-off shotgun. “In hindsight, you think… how quickly life can change for you — or even end,” he said Wednesday.The Fort McMurray man came face-to-face with a gunman in
There are growing concerns about reported extortion attempts targeting members of the South Asian community in B.C.’s Fraser Valley. Earlier this month, police in both Abbotsford and Surrey issued warnings following reports of individuals being targeted with extortion letters.Motorcycle accident toronto today has now obtained one of those letters, which claims to be from an “Indian gang.”“We