Crime
Camrose RCMP make arrests and recover stolen vehicle
March 14, 2018
Camrose County, Alberta – On March 8, following a thwarted break and enter attempt, a multi-jurisdictional pursuit and a short foot pursuit, the RCMP arrested one male and launched an ongoing investigation.
At 10:49 p.m., Camrose RCMP responded to a suspicious vehicle complaint. Immediate patrols were made and the suspect vehicle was located leaving a local business. The RCMP attempted a traffic stop, but the vehicle fled. It was determined that the vehicle had been reported stolen out of Leduc, earlier in the day.
With the assistance of Wetaskiwin and Maskwacis RCMP, a tire deflation device was deployed. The vehicle was abandoned in the city of Wetaskiwin and two male suspects fled on foot. Following a short foot pursuit, one male suspect was arrested. Police Dog Services was utilized to attempt to track the second suspect, however he was not located immediately.
The stolen truck was recovered by the RCMP and ultimately returned to its owner.
28-year-old Todd Orrin Adams of Rimbey has been charged with four criminal code charges as follows: Operation of a motor vehicle while being pursued, Drive while disqualified, Break and enter with intent and possession of property obtained by crime, over $5,000.
Ongoing investigation led the RCMP to identify the second suspect. Charges were sworn and a warrant was sought for his arrest.
On March 12, following a complaint of a suspicious male, Didsbury RCMP located the suspicious male driving what was determined to be a stolen truck. After tactically trying to contain the suspect and the stolen truck, the driver attempted to flee and got the vehicle stuck. The driver, who was determined to be wanted on the earlier referenced arrest warrant, was arrested by Didsbury RCMP without further incident.
32-year-old Trent McAdam of Ermineskin First Nation is facing two criminal code charges for the Camrose incident; Possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000 and break and enter with intent.
As a result of the investigation in Didsbury, he is facing five more criminal charges: possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle, fail to stop for police, drive while disqualified and drive an uninsured motor vehicle.
Bail hearings were held for both subjects. Adams remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in Provincial Court of Alberta in Wetaskiwin on March 13, 2018. McAdams remains in custody and is scheduled to appear in Provincial Court of Alberta in Camrose on March 13, 2018.
” We are partners with the community when it comes to solving crimes like this,” says Corporal Isaac Verbaas, Detachment Commander of the Camrose RCMP. “We need the eyes and ears of the community to tell us when something looks out of place. Be the best witness you can be and we will take it from there.”
Crime
Canadian receives one-year jail sentence, lifetime firearms ban for setting church on fire
From LifeSiteNews
Jordan Willet was convicted of starting a blaze in February at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Regina, Saskatchewan.
A man who was charged with arson after trying to burn down a historic Catholic church earlier this year was handed only a one-year jail sentence for his crime but has also been banned from being able to possess firearms for life.
On April 9, a court sentenced Jordan Willet, 31, to 278 days in jail for intentionally or recklessly causing damage by fire or explosion to property and for not complying with a probation order. In February, LifeSiteNews reported that Willet had been arrested and charged with starting a fire at Blessed Sacrament Parish in Regina, Saskatchewan, on February 9.
He pleaded guilty to both charges and also received an 18-month probation sentence along with a lifetime firearm prohibition.
Over the weekend, Fr. James Hentges, the parish pastor, said he was “relieved he is in custody and is not a threat.”
The parish had posted footage of the February 9 attack on social media and put out a plea for anyone who had information on the event to report it to police.
The video footage of the attack, taken from a doorbell camera, shows Willet, in a mask, pouring fuel on the church before setting it on fire.
Fire investigators determined that the blaze was caused by a direct act of arson.
Since the spring of 2021, more than 100 churches, most of them Catholic, have been burned or vandalized across Canada. The attacks on the churches came shortly after the unconfirmed discovery of “unmarked graves” at now-closed residential schools once run by the Church in parts of the country.
In 2021 and 2022, the mainstream media ran with inflammatory and dubious claims that hundreds of children were buried and disregarded by Catholic priests and nuns who ran some of the schools.
Despite the church burnings, the federal government under Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has done nothing substantial to bring those responsible to justice or to stem the root cause of the burnings.
The claims, which were promoted by Trudeau among others, lack any physical evidence and were based solely on soil disturbances found via ground-penetrating radar.
In fact, in August 2023, one such site underwent a four-week excavation and yielded no remains.
Despite the lack of evidence, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) and others have continued to push the narrative, even running a report recently that appeared to justify the dozens of attacks against Catholic churches.
In January, Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre not only condemned the rash of church burnings in Canada but called out Trudeau for being silent on the matter.
Addictions
Liberal MP blasts Trudeau-backed ‘safe supply’ drug programs, linking them to ‘chaos’ in cities
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From LifeSiteNews
‘There is certainly the perception by a lot of Canadians that a lot of downtown cores are basically out of control,’ Liberal MP Dr. Marcus Powlowski said, before pointing specifically to ‘safe supply’ drugs and injection sites.
A Liberal MP has seemingly taken issue with “safe supply” drug policies for increasing public disorder in Canada, policies his own party, under the leadership of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has endorsed.
During an April 15 health committee meeting in the House of Commons, Liberal MP Dr. Marcus Powlowski, while pressing the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), stated that “safe supply” drug policies have caused Canadians to feel unsafe in downtown Ottawa and in other major cities across the country.
“There is certainly the perception by a lot of Canadians that a lot of downtown cores are basically out of control,” Powlowski said.
“Certainly there is also the perception that around places like safe supply, safe injection sites, that things are worse, that there are people openly stoned in the street,” he continued.
“People are getting cardio-pulmonary resuscitation performed on them in the street. There are needles around on the street. There is excrement on the street,” Powlowski added.
“Safe supply“ is the term used to refer to government-prescribed drugs that are given to addicts under the assumption that a more controlled batch of narcotics reduces the risk of overdose – critics of the policy argue that giving addicts drugs only enables their behavior, puts the public at risk, disincentivizes recovery from addiction and has not reduced, and sometimes even increased, overdose deaths where implemented.
Powlowski, who has worked as an emergency room physician, also stated that violence from drug users has become a problem in Ottawa, especially in areas near so-called “safe supply” drug sites which operate within blocks of Parliament Hill.
“A few months ago I was downtown in a bar here in Ottawa, not that I do that very often, but a couple of colleagues I met up with, one was assaulted as he was going to the bar, another one was threatened,” said Powlowski.
“Within a month of that I was returning down Wellington Street from downtown, the Rideau Centre, and my son who is 15 was coming after me,” he continued. “It was nighttime and there was someone out in the middle of the street, yelling and screaming, accosting cars.”
Liberal MP Dr. Brendan Hanley, the Yukon’s former chief medical officer, testified in support of Powlowski, saying, “My colleague Dr. Powlowski described what it’s like to walk around downtown Ottawa here, and certainly when I walk home every day, I encounter similar circumstances.”
“Do you agree this is a problem?” Powlowski pressed RCMP deputy commissioner Dwayne McDonald. “Do you agree for a lot of Canadians who are not involved with drugs, that they are increasingly unhappy with society in downtown cores which are this way? Do you want to do more about this, and if you do want to do more about this, what do you need?”
McDonald acknowledged the issue but failed to offer a solution, responding, “One of the success factors required for decriminalization is public support.”
“I think when you are faced with situations where, as we have experienced in our communities and we hear from our communities, where public consumption in some places may lead to other members of the public feeling at risk or threatened or vulnerable to street level crime, it does present a challenge,” he continued.
Deaths from drug overdoses in Canada have gone through the roof in recent years, particularly in British Columbia after Trudeau’s federal government effectively decriminalized hard drugs in the province.
Under the policy, which launched in early 2023, the federal government began allowing people within the province to possess up to 2.5 grams of hard drugs without criminal penalty, but selling drugs remained a crime.
The policy has been widely criticized, especially after it was found that the province broke three different drug-related overdose records in the first month the new law was in effect.
The effects of decriminalizing hard drugs in various parts of Canada has been exposed in Aaron Gunn’s recent documentary, Canada is Dying, and in U.K. Telegraph journalist Steven Edginton’s mini-documentary, Canada’s Woke Nightmare: A Warning to the West.
Gunn says he documents the “general societal chaos and explosion of drug use in every major Canadian city.”
“Overdose deaths are up 1,000 percent in the last 10 years,” he said in his film, adding that “[e]very day in Vancouver four people are randomly attacked.”
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