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Man claims responsibility for vandalizing Regina's John A. Macdonald statue
A local musician has come forward and claimed responsibility for defacing Victoria Park’s statue of John A. Macdonald not only this week but once before. Patrick Johnson contacted the Leader-Post on...
View ArticleRegina woman charged with attempted murder after Sunday incident
A 27-year-old woman has been charged with attempted murder after police responded to a call of a home invasion early Sunday morning. Police were called to the 1500 block of Rae Street for a report of a...
View ArticleRegina man declared long-term offender
Justice Richard Elson noted it isn’t unusual to encounter offenders who possess little insight into their life’s circumstances and the impact of those circumstances on their criminal behaviour. In...
View ArticleRPS to release names of homicide victims on a case-by-case basis
Rather than a blanket ban on releasing the names of homicide victims, the Regina Police Service (RPS) has announced it will instead assess on a case-by-case basis. The RPS says it has been doing as...
View ArticleA Moment in Crime episode 7: Regina’s big jailbreak
It’s been ten years since six inmates made a daring escape from the Regina Correctional Centre. Leader-Post crime reporter Barb Pacholik looks back on how the inmates planned their escape from the...
View ArticleA Moment in Crime bonus episode: A bizarre escape plan
Barb Pacholik returns with a bonus mini-episode of A Moment in Crime that takes a look at a less-successful jail escape. In 1986, Brian Schultenkamper hatched an unusual plan to escape from the Regina...
View ArticleDrug addiction lands former cook in hot water
A former cook got himself into some hot water while trying to support a serious drug addiction — including by transporting three bricks of cocaine on the bus and gearing up in a drug store uniform to...
View ArticleRegina judge declines to order sweeping ban on witness protection case
A judge declined to grant a request for what would have amounted to a sweeping ban on a case that pits a gang informant against those in charge of the Witness Protection Program. Noel Harder launched a...
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David Woods's former lawyer says the man admitted to killing wife
In a recently filed court document, the former lawyer for convicted murderer David Woods states the man admitted to killing his wife Dorothy Woods. “He advised me that he had killed his wife and had...
View ArticleJury selection held for two accused of killing Ryan Sugar
Fourteen jurors have been selected as the trial begins for two people accused in the 2016 death of Ryan Daniel Sugar. Colinda Lee Hotomani, 36, and Gregory James Wolfe, 26, are each charged with...
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Family and faith guiding Jenny McKay's loved ones through loss
When asked about losing his daughter Jenny Leigh McKay, retired pastor Doug Campbell refers to a metaphor in the Bible about journeying through water. At first, wading into the river, the process is...
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Ryan Sugar died of smoke inhalation in house fire: Crown
Ryan Daniel Sugar died of a combination of smoke inhalation and carbon monoxide poisoning, having been left wounded inside a house in which a fire was intentionally lit — or such will be the case the...
View ArticleMilitary veteran handed prison term for firearms offences
From the ghettos of the United States to military service in operations like Desert Storm and the Los Angeles riots, Murray A. Stonechild has lived side by side with violence — and has worked to...
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Sugar injured prior to death in fire: pathologist
Several days after a fire destroyed a Regina house, investigators found themselves contending with a horrific discovery. The soot-blackened body of a man was found curled on the floor beneath the...
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Fellow accused tells jurors Sugar was blocked in as fire lit
According to Jessica Pangman, her last glimpse of Ryan Daniel Sugar was of him staring at her from the back bedroom of her small Regina house while, between them, a pillow burned and smoke filled the...
View ArticleLong-awaited Alena Pastuch fraud trial hits another snag
After what the Crown described as a “revolving door” of defence counsel in a four-year-old case, a Regina woman accused in a multi-million fraud could end up on her own at trial if she can’t get...
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Former remand inmate says Wolfe admitted to killing Sugar
Gregory James Wolfe admitted to his role in Ryan Daniel Sugar’s death — more than once, a former jail inmate told a jury Tuesday. The inmate — who cannot be named because of a court-imposed publication...
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Fire that led to Ryan Sugar's death started around bathroom door
A fire investigator made two important finds in the time following the October 2016 death of 31-year-old Ryan Daniel Sugar. First, Chance Duperreault found the body, lying on the floor of the back...
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Witness testifies Hotomani said she stabbed Sugar
A Regina man told a jury Colinda Lee Hotomani talked about stabbing a man, then leaving a house in flames. “(She said) that there’d been a fire started to end the house, to finish off the house that...
View ArticleMan takes a number to confess to Regina robberies
On Aug. 6, a man walked into Regina Police Service headquarters. He took a number, sat down and waited for his turn to be called. When his number came up, William David Jamieson stepped forward — and...
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