Hobbema

• Man found dead on Samson Cree Nation, Maskwacis residents worry about gang violence

  One man was found dead and two others injured in a home on the Samson Cree Nation townsite in Maskwacis just before 2 a.m. Monday.

  Crime

  Mar 27, 2017
  
• 1 dead, 3 injured after rollover crash in Maskwacis, Alta.

  A 35-year-old man is dead after a single vehicle rollover near the powwow grounds in Masckwacis, Alta. on Sunday morning.

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  Aug 23, 2016
  
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• Pleas entered at Yellowbird murder trial

  Two men facing murder charges in the 2011 murder of Chelsea Yellowbird entered pleas Tuesday.

  Crime

  May 19, 2015
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• Cigarette charges stayed against former Alberta first nation chief

  "It's scandalous how far this has gone," says the former lawyer for Carolyn Buffalo, the former chief of Montana Cree First Nation in Hobbema, after charges against her were stayed.

  Crime

  Feb 4, 2015
• Alberta woman charged with murder in stabbing death

  An Alberta woman has been charged with second degree murder in the stabbing death of a woman in a central Alberta First Nation in August 2013.

  Crime

  Oct 20, 2014
• UPDATE: Death of 20-year-old on Alberta First Nation a homicide

  A 16-year-old has been charged after an autopsy confirmed that Jacob Soosay, a 20-year-old from the Samson Cree Nation in Maskwacis, was fatally shot on Jan. 9.

  Crime

  Jan 13, 2014
• Alberta First Nation receives $3 million in funding to fight gangs

  The federal government has donated nearly $3 million ($2,895,321) in funding for a new prevention project targeting gang violence in the First Nation communities of Samson Cree Nation, Ermineskin First Nation, Louis Bull First Nation and Montana First Nation.

  Crime

  Jan 6, 2014
• UPDATE: Third person charged in Hobbema murder case

  On Tuesday, RCMP announced the final arrest in the murder of 23-year-old Chelsea Yellowbird, who was shot outside of a residence at the Samson Cree Nations on September 5, 2011.

  Crime

  Nov 12, 2013
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• 15-year-old boy found dead on Samson Cree Nation in Hobbema

  RCMP in Hobbema are investigating the death of a 15-year-old boy.

  Oct 12, 2013
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• RCMP capture escaped prisoner

  RCMP took Cody McIntosh into custody in Edson Wednesday afternoon.

  Crime

  Oct 3, 2013