VPD

• Bystanders stop stabbing incident in Downtown Eastside: Vancouver police

  Vancouver police said more people could have been stabbed if members of the public had not stepped in and physically stopped the suspect.

  Crime

  Sep 20
  
• Man armed with ‘edged weapons’ arrested after move toward stage at Vancouver comedy festival

  Police said a 31-year-old man breached a fence around 9:30 p.m. and was moving "towards the front of the stage" when security guards intervened.

  Crime

  Sep 16
  
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• Vancouver Chinatown triple-stabbing suspect in court for second appearance 

  Blair Evan Donnelly was arrested and charged after three people were reportedly stabbed while attending the Light Up Chinatown festival on Sunday.

  Crime

  Sep 15
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• Almost half of VPD files in recent shoplifting crackdown not sent to Crown

  Project Barcode netted 217 arrests between Feb. 15 and March 10, and the VPD said 278 criminal charges were recommended to Crown counsel.

  Crime

  Sep 14
• Two sent to hospital in Vancouver shooting: police

  Vancouver police said the shooting took place just after midnight outside of a home near Victoria Drive and East 28 Ave.

  Crime

  Sep 10
• Vancouver’s Chinatown seeing change 1 year after delegation to San Francisco brought back ideas

  Community engagement and involvement have really pivoted Chinatown’s direction, according to Vancouver Police Deputy Chief Const. Howard Chow.

  Canada

  Sep 9
• Vancouver police officer charged in collision with DTES pedestrian caught on camera

  In the video, a Vancouver police cruiser can be seen driving eastbound when it strikes a man standing hunched over in the middle of the road.

  Crime

  Sep 8
• ‘We never stop investigating’: Vancouver police arrest suspect in 4 cold-case sex assaults

  Vancouver police said they 'obtained evidence linking the three unsolved sex assaults to a fourth cold-case that occurred in the downtown core on Christmas Eve in 2010.'

  Crime

  Aug 30
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• ‘Motive was colour of victim’s skin’: Man sentenced to 1 year for Vancouver assault

  Shane Arin McKenzie has been sentenced to one year in jail, followed by one year of probation.

  Crime

  Aug 25
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• 32-year-old man stabbed and killed in Vancouver’s 11th homicide of the year

  Police said officers were called to Granville Street and Smithe Street just before 3:30 a.m. Friday following reports a man had been stabbed.

  Crime

  Aug 4