Police Custody

• Provincial inquest into deaths of men in Winnipeg police custody begins

  Patrick Gagnon, then 41, died in police custody in October 2018. His case is the first to be examined as part of the group inquest.

  Crime

  Nov 7, 2023
  
• 31-year-old woman dies in holding cell after day-long hospital stay: police

  The Alberta police watchdog ASIRT is investigating the woman's death, which happened on Saturday while she was in a holding cell.

  Crime

  Sep 3, 2023
  
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• Man in medical distress dies in police custody: Pelican Narrows RCMP

  Saskatchewan SIRT will investigate police's interaction of a man who went into medical distress while in custody at the Pelican Narrows RCMP detachment and later died in hospital.

  Crime

  Jul 18, 2023
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• Police launch investigation after sudden death of infant on Onion Lake Cree Nation

  A 33-year-old woman from the Onion Lake Cree Nation is charged with concealing the body of a child and will appear in court on April 19th.

  Crime

  Mar 14, 2023
• 2 in police custody after Hwy 16 blocked at Waseca, Sask. for police investigation

  Traffic resumed on Highway 16 in both directions at Waseca, Sask., Wednesday after it was blocked for a serious police investigation.

  Traffic

  Feb 8, 2023
• 1.5 million contraband cigarettes seized by Vernon, B.C. Mounties

  It was around 10 p.m., Jan. 8, when a vehicle towing a trailer in the 4800-block of 27th Street was stopped as part of a routing RCMP traffic stop.

  Crime

  Jan 25, 2023
• Ontario man accused of attempted carjacking of elderly woman arrested: Vernon RCMP

  The attempted carjacking happened Wednesday morning, just before 10 a.m. in the parking lot of a business in the 2200-block of 58th Avenue in Vernon.

  Crime

  Nov 23, 2022
• Lawyers at Thunder Bay custody deaths inquest advise sobering centre, better training

  Both men died of medical conditions while in custody and the inquest has heard that they had chances of survival if they had been taken to hospital.

  Crime

  Nov 3, 2022
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• Inquest to hear Indigenous men who died in Thunder Bay police custody had chances of survival

  A coroner's joint inquest begins this morning into the deaths of two Indigenous men who died while in the custody of Thunder Bay police.

  Canada

  Oct 11, 2022
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• Man escapes Deschambault Lake RCMP custody after appearing in court

  Deschambault Lake RCMP are searching for a 21-year-old man who escaped from their custody when he was being escorted to a parked police vehicle after court.

  Crime

  May 11, 2022