Crime

… In Nova Scotia, the province’s electric utility has seen a significant increase in thefts of copper wire over the past year, and Bell Aliant has said the same thing is happening in New Brunswick.

Matt Drover, senior director of transmission and distribution operations at Nova Scotia Power, says the company has recorded dozens of such thefts in 2022. He would not disclose the exact number or the financial cost.

In October, the company issued a news release in an attempt to dissuade would-be thieves, warning that they were putting themselves and others “at risk of severe injury or death.”

… Police have taken two suspects into custody after the young officer was killed when he responded to a call for a vehicle in a ditch at the intersection of Indian Line and Concession 14, west of Hagersville. Sources said police later were looking for suspects in a stolen pickup truck.

I see a healing circle ahead.

A young OPP officer was killed in a shootout involving two people in an allegedly stolen pickup truck near Hagersville, according to sources.

The OPP are on the hunt for what witnesses told police was a man and woman in connection with a shooting that saw one of their officers shot twice at 2905 Indian Line Rd. Tuesday.

On September 4, the James Smith Cree Reservation in Saskatchewan was gripped by terror. Myles Sanderson and his brother Damien went on a stabbing spree, murdering 10 people and injuring 18. Over the next three days, hundreds of police officers were on a manhunt across the province, finding Damien stabbed to death at one of the 13 crime scenes they visited. On Wednesday, September 7, police were finally able to stop Myles after a high-speed chase on Highway 11 near the town of Rosthern. Myles died while in custody after being in medical distress.

The mass murder shocked the country and made headlines around the world. In the aftermath of these tragedies, the question is often asked: How could something like this happen? Unfortunately, the answer is predictable as it is shocking.

Details of $463K Christmas Day bank heist revealed in labour battle between Brink’s and fired guard

On Christmas Day 2016, four people wearing flesh-toned masks and winter clothing made what you might call the ultimate in unauthorized withdrawals from five bank machines in Langley, B.C.

They stole nearly half a million dollars in a Yuletide heist that has never resulted in charges, or even public disclosure — until now.

The main suspect in the robbery — a former Brink’s Company guard — has been fighting to get his job back since the global security firm fired him in November 2018. And Brink’s has been trying to get him to pay back $463,220 it shelled out to make things whole for the victim bank.

It continually baffles me why these Democratic bastions go for the most mediocre – sometimes outright malevolent – hands down worst choices every single time. City residents watch their world dissolve around them, solely through the actions of the very individuals they return to office time and time again, yet nothing but nothing will shake them free of their mindless devotion to their own destruction. New York City’s a terrific example of that mindset.

Young men in Chicago and Philadelphia’s worst neighborhoods are more likely to be shot and killed than those who fought on the bloodiest front-lines in Afghanistan and Iraq, a new study shows.

Brandon del Pozo, a former New York City cop and now Brown University scholar, says gun deaths among young men in those city’s ghettos are worse than seen by troops deployed in America’s war on terror.

Del Pozo, who started out in law enforcement patrolling streets in East Flatbush, Brooklyn, called his research an ‘urgent wake-up call’ for tackling gun crime and murder rates in the grittiest cities.

The Idaho police chief heading the investigation into the deaths of four college students has said he has no regrets over how the probe has been conducted, insisting that the initial stages were handled correctly while also suggesting that he is confident a ‘conclusion’ will be reached.

But Chief James Fry who heads up the Moscow Police force, in the small city of 25,000 people has also admitted he has no clue where the killer is.