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Meat shop manager charged for selling wild meat
The manager of a meat shop located near Melfort has been fined $11,500 after pleading guilty to charges under the Migratory Birds Convention Act last month. An investigation that began in 2014...
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Drones still sighted over jails from time to time
Contraband has found its way into correctional facilities in a number of ways, but attempts are still being made from time to time to bring shipments by air. Ministry of Justice spokesman Drew Wilby...
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Fentanyl has been located in all Sask.'s adult jails
Fentanyl has been found within all the province’s adult correctional centres, a provincial spokesman has confirmed. The drug has made the news repeatedly, blamed for a rash of deaths throughout the...
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Police asking public not to report incidents via RPS social media
Regina Police Service spokeswoman Elizabeth Popowich was getting ready for bed when she checked the city police Facebook page. It isn’t typically monitored at that hour, but Popowich said she tries to...
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Police investigate robbery on Rochdale Boulevard
Two male suspects used weapons to rob a business in the 4400 block of Rochdale Boulevard. Police were dispatched at 4:15 a.m. Sunday, according to a Regina Police Service news release. The two men...
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Resident shaken after Wallace Street home targeted in morning shooting
Waking up to find a bullet hole in her front-room window was a deeply unsettling way for a Wallace Street resident to begin her Tuesday. She didn’t hear the shot, but rising at around 7:15 a.m. she...
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Probe trial hears more about problems within RM of Sherwood
Problems within the RM of Sherwood that eventually led to an inquiry and the involvement of the provincial government were spoken to by witnesses who took the stand during the municipal corruption...
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Probe denies offering reeve a vote trade
RM of Sherwood councillor Tim Probe denied accusations he attempted to bribe or blackmail reeve Jeff Poissant during a 2016 conversation between the two. Probe, 58, took the stand on the third day of...
View ArticleJudge to decide Probe municipal corruption case in June
RM of Sherwood councillor Tim Probe will have to wait until June to learn the verdict in his municipal corruption trial. Court of Queen’s Bench Justice Richard Elson heard closing arguments on...
View ArticleMan sentenced for sex assault on two girls
A man known for helping new Canadians in Regina earned a prison sentence this week when he pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting two children. Court heard the sisters, then aged nine and 14, had been...
View ArticleAppeal Court overturns two-for-one remand credit for convicted killer
After the Saskatchewan Court of Appeal found an inmate’s assault insufficient to merit additional remand credit, a convicted killer effectively ended up with 20 more months to serve on his sentence....
View ArticleRegina police charge two people with robbery, kidnapping after woman tied to...
Regina police have arrested two people after a woman says she was kidnapped at gunpoint and robbed. Police say a woman called RCMP on Jan. 7 saying she had been taken against her will and tied to a...
View ArticleJury being selected in Regina murder, dismemberment case
Jury selection began on Monday for the trial of three men accused of murdering and dismembering 34-year-old Reno Lee. Andrew Michael Bellegarde, Bronson Chad Gordon and Daniel Theodore are each facing...
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Condo owner feels he may have been targeted in suspicious fire, $500K reward...
As the investigation into a possible arson that damaged a Warehouse District condo complex continues, one of the units’ owners is offering a “princely sum” for information about how the blaze began. A...
View ArticleBreak and enter led to child porn find
A break-in to a residence in a Saskatchewan village turned out to be a crime that led to the discovery of another — a sizeable collection of child pornography accrued by the home’s resident over the...
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Reno Lee murder trial delayed when two jurors discharged
The trial for three men accused of killing 34-year-old Reno Lee hit a snag before it even began when two jurors had to be discharged on Wednesday morning — the day the Crown was expected to start...
View ArticleJury picked for Reno Lee murder trial — again
For the second time this week, a full jury panel has been selected to hear the trial for three men accused of murdering and dismembering 34-year-old Reno Lee. On Monday, close to 600 potential jurors...
View ArticleJudge deems police actions a threat, tosses confession
For those not often in contact with police, an understanding of what officers can and cannot do legally might not be inherent. That issue was among those considered by a Regina Provincial Court judge...
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Reno Lee was shot, dismembered, Crown tells jury
Within a bluff of trees near Balcarres on the evening of April 30, 2015, coroner Maureen Stinnen stood while members of the Regina Police Service brought her a hockey bag and several large, black,...
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Jury views graphic photos of Reno Lee's dismembered body on second day of trial
Those gathered in a Regina courtroom — including the jury being asked to decide the fates of three men accused of murdering Reno Lee — spent part of Tuesday looking at disturbing and graphic photos of...
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