Edmonton Crime

• Guilty verdict for man who sold gun used to kill Edmonton police officers

  The Edmonton man who supplied a semi-automatic rifle later used to kill EPS officers Travis Jordan and Brett Ryan and maim another man has been found guilty of manslaughter.

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  May 26
  
• Police investigating death of 3-year-old girl east of downtown Edmonton

  Edmonton police were called in by EMS around 8:30 p.m. Saturday after the three-year-old girl was found dead in a suite near Jasper Avenue and 91 Street.

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  May 25
  
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• Canada-wide probe leads to dozens of arrests, largest drug bust in Winnipeg police history

  A record-breaking $37.2 million worth of drugs were removed from the streets following an interprovincial drug bust that led to 33 arrests and 174 charges, police said.

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  May 20
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• RCMP probing heist after 5K litres of fuel stolen from Strathcona County gas station

  The RCMP is investigating after roughly 5,000 litres of fuel was stolen from a tank at an Edmonton-area gas station earlier this month.

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  May 18
• Owner of Summerside dogs that killed boy tells court training was in the works

  Crystal MacDonald, who is on trial for criminal negligence causing death, said she was working on getting her intact Cane Corsos trained before they killed 11-year-old Kache Grist.

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  May 15
• Woman attacked by dogs 2 months before boy killed in Edmonton: ‘Shredded in every direction’

  Tina Kelepouris says she often interacted with the two cane corsos but had not seen them in a while when they attacked her — two months before killing 11-year-old Kache Grist.

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  May 13
• 9 women come forward to Edmonton police over date rape investigation, more charges laid

  Five more complaints have been made since Edmonton police released information about a man suspected of drugging and sexually assaulting women he met on popular dating apps.

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  May 6
• Man charged with manslaughter in EPS officers’ deaths being used a scapegoat: defence

  The Crown argues Dennis Okeymow sold the rifle illegally to a minor with mental illness and should have known there was a risk people would have been harmed or killed.

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  Apr 30
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• Teen charged after Jasper Place High School student critically injured in stabbing

  A teenager has been charged in a stabbing that put a west Edmonton high school into lockdown and sent a 16-year-old student to hospital with life-threatening injuries. 

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  Apr 13
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• ‘Extremely troubling’: Man accused of bestiality and pimping women out in Edmonton

  One of the victims responded to a Facebook ad of a room for rent in Edmonton but upon arrival, was allegedly forced into the sex trade by the accused — who acted as her pimp.

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  Apr 8