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Same crime, different outcome: Penticton fentanyl dealers get vastly different sentences
A couple of Okanagan drug dealers busted in a Walmart parking lot for selling fentanyl…
North Okanagan senior who raped his granddaughter gets 4 years jail
A 77-year-old North Okanagan man who repeatedly sexually abused his 14-year-old granddaughter will spend four…
Kamloops top cop displeased with man’s three-year sentence for killing TRU students
Reid McKnight was handed a three-year sentence for killing three men in a Kamloops hit…
B.C. trucker with 46 driving infractions gets 3 years jail for fatal crash
A professional B.C. truck driver with 46 driving infractions was sentenced to three years in…
Kelowna man published video of hamster torture to ‘ruin peoples’ day’
CONTENT ADVISORY The now-21-year-old Kelowna man who recorded himself torturing three hamsters and publishing the…
Kamloops digital ‘hoarder’ sentenced to jail for possessing child porn
A Kamloops man has been sentenced to 18 months in jail followed by two years…
Man who exposed himself to women in Kamloops will be released
A Kamloops man facing charges of indecent acts in public will serve one additional day…
Kamloops dial-a-dope dealer evades justice for six years, avoids prison
A former Kamloops man, who fled B.C. for six years before his trial has avoided…
Jail ‘only option’ for Shuswap Band member, freeman-on-the-land who ignored court order, used hot tub
A Little Shuswap Lake Indian Band member who is referred to in court documents as…
Vernon physiotherapist convicted of sexual assault will have to wait to see if he will avoid jail
A Vernon physiotherapist convicted of sexual assault will have to wait longer to see whether…
Sagmoen case comes down to circumstantial evidence
The Crown has conceded that the case against Curtis Sagmoen comes down to circumstantial evidence…
Vernon judge tells fentanyl dealer ‘don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time’
A 23-year-old fentanyl dealer will spend 18-months behind bars after Judge Jeremy Guild told him…
Vernon drug smuggler loses last chance at appeal
VERNON – A Vernon man currently serving jail time for attempting to import $180,000 of…
Vernon judge says ‘exceptional circumstances’ means fentanyl dealer won’t get jail time
VERNON – In what the judge described as "exceptional circumstances," a convicted North Okanagan fentanyl…
Accused Kelowna pimp could face four years in prison
KELOWNA – In the spring and summer of 2015, Simon Rypiak ran a prostitution ring…