Prolific Offender

• ‘Nanaimo’s most prolific criminal’ back on the street again

  He now has 174 criminal convictions - 81 of them involving violence - including an incident where he threw a brick at a pregnant woman.

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  Oct 13
  
• Prolific Kelowna offender with 420 police files jailed after getting naked in hotel hot tub

  Justin Wayne Collins, 49, was sentenced to six months in jail on July 3 after he pleaded guilty to committing an indecent act, mischief and theft in Kelowna earlier this year.

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  Jul 22
  
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• Vancouver police issue warning after violent offender re-released into community

  Jordan McIntosh was previously released back into the community last September and was serving a conditional sentence order related to two counts of assault.

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  Mar 19
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• Alberta police recover stolen Jaws of Life used in string of thefts

  The Jaws of Life were used in over a dozen break-ins across Edmonton, resulting in losses between $750,000 and $1 million, after they were stolen from a volunteer fire department.

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  Feb 26
• Nanaimo repeat offender back in custody after incident at coffee shop

  Nanaimo RCMP confirmed that 40-year-old Aiden Tye of Nanaimo was charged with assault with a weapon, mischief, indecent act, indecent exhibition, and breach of a probation order.

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  Jan 15
• Girl, 5, killed in crash involving stolen truck northeast of Edmonton: RCMP

  A five-year-old girl died while her 27-year-old mother, a 30-year-old man and a 10-month-old boy went to hospital after the crash near Cold Lake in eastern Alberta.

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  Jan 15
• Alberta man connected to ‘shelter in place’ warning arrested in Kelowna

  The driver who was the lone occupant was taken into custody without incident and identified as Gregory Deviat, 35, of Cochrane, Alta.

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  Sep 26, 2023
• Kelowna man behind gruesome commuter killing back in police custody

  Tyler Jack Newton, 32, and an unnamed woman were caught in a GMC Sierra that was suspected to be stolen at a residence in the 1000 block of El Paso Road on Thursday, RCMP said. 

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  Aug 11, 2023
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• West Vancouver homeowner subdues prolific burglar during break-in: police

  Investigators said the suspect, a 'repeat offender and well known to the West Vancouver Police' has been charged with break and enter and remains in custody.

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  Apr 14, 2023
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• Suspect in crime spree nabbed in Lake Country: RCMP

  A man was taken into custody for possession of a stolen truck, a service truck, a tool trailer and tools taken from multiple locations over at least several months.  

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  Apr 12, 2023