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Woman assaulted by pickpocket on UBC campus

Yehonathan Tommer — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:00:44 +0000

VANCOUVER, B.C. – A 19-year-old woman was struck to the ground by a pickpocket who attempted to steal her wallet, after she left the campus village food court at the University of British Columbia (UBC) on Tuesday. The woman was walking alone across the campus at 7:00 pm when she felt a hand reach into [...]

Brampton man accused of violent sexual offenses

Yehonathan Tommer — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:58:53 +0000

PEEL – Police have called for victims to testify against a 41-year old Brampton man suspected of committing violent sexual offenses between 2005 and 2011. The accused Mark Burke, was arrested on June 15, 2011 in Winnipeg on a Canada-wide warrant. He was returned to Ontario and charged in the Ontario Court of Justice in [...]

High-rise marijuana grow-op busted

Yehonathan Tommer — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:25:02 +0000

TORONTO – Cops busted a soil-based marijuana grow operation in a high-rise apartment building on Don Mills Road on Monday. Some 171 plants, dry marijuana and growing equipment were seized at a value of $200,000. Robert Surge and Stephen Jones of Toronto, both 29 years of age, were arrested and charged with producing marijuana and [...]

Youth dies after collapsing during hockey game

Yehonathan Tommer — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:16:07 +0000

OTTAWA – A 15-year-old youth has died after he collapsed while playing hockey at the Erskine Johnson Arena in Carp on Sunday. The teen, whose name has been withheld, collapsed on the player’s bench after he had ended his shift. He was given CPR with a portable defibrillator and taken to CHEO where he was [...]

Vandals damage St. George Anglican Church and cemetery

Yehonathan Tommer — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 22:55:11 +0000

DURHAM – Vandals broke windows and damaged several graves in the cemetery adjoining St. George Anglican Church on Randall Drive in Ajax. On Sunday morning church officials discovered that nine headstones had been smashed and dislodged, and two of the church’s historic stained glass windows had also been damaged. There was no evidence that the [...]

Child photographer accused of pornography, sexual assault

Yehonathan Tommer — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:18:46 +0000

ST.THOMAS, ON – A former child photographer has been charged with child pornography and related sexual offenses. Jason Leonard Sawyer,31, of Southwold Township, Ontario, was at one time a self-employed photographer under the business name “Jay Sawyer Photography” of young female models and wedding receptions. He was arrested on January 25 and charged in the [...]

Mother and daughter freed from overturned vehicle submerged in ditch

Yehonathan Tommer — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 18:06:02 +0000

SURREY, B.C. – A mother and her two-year-old daughter trapped in their overturned vehicle off Hwy 17 on Wednesday were freed by a passing motorist who noticed the mother’s six-year-old son, Jordan, climbing soaking wet out of a ditch. Alyse, 25, of Surrey, was driving to work at 7:00 am when she swerved to avoid [...]

22-year-old man accused of online youth prostitution

Yehonathan Tommer — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:31:28 +0000

VANCOUVER, B.C. – A 22-year-old man has been charged with conducting an alleged on-line prostitution service after police learned in November 2010 that a 16-year old girl was being solicited as a prostitute on several internet sites. Following an investigation by the West Shore RCMP, the Regional Crime Unit, and Mobile Youth Services Team, the [...]

Police suspect gang warfare in Howson homicide

Yehonathan Tommer — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:40:43 +0000

VANCOUVER, B.C – The man whose body was found in a field in Pitt Meadows B.C. on January 31 has been identified as 26-year-old Brandon Howson of Maple Ridge. Howson was known to the police who suspect that his death had been a targeted killing, though they say it is too early to establish a [...]

Golden Cab taxi driver suspected of sexual assault

Yehonathan Tommer — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 00:09:19 +0000

VANCOUVER, B.C.- Police are investigating complaints that taxi drivers employed by Golden Cabs in Dawson Creek have allegedly locked female passengers in their vehicles and sexually assaulted them. As recently as January 25th a 13-year-old girl told police that she naively accepted a free ride home. But when she got into the vehicle, the taxi [...]