Tweet Vancouver police have released photographs of two suspects in the assault of a gay Vancouver couple on Saturday night. The photos, pulled from a security tape, show two young men walking down Taylor Street, just steps away from where David Holtzman and his partner Peter Regier were beaten up. The couple found two men [...]
Tweet Three targeted home invasions this week left four people with injuries and police searching for their assailants. In one incident in Burnaby Thursday afternoon, a woman in her 70s was accosted by two balaclava-clad men who burst into the house. A 20-year-old man also at the home on Ashley Court rushed to the door [...]
Tweet Vancouver police say they have charged a Surrey teen in the fatal stabbing of 17-year-old girl at a Vancouver house party last week. Katey Renieta Gonzolas, 18, of Surrey has been charged with second-degree murder in connection the fatal stabbing, according to Inspector Mike Porteous of the department’s major crime section. Gonzolas was arrested [...]
Tweet Police in Vancouver are crediting collaboration with local businesses for a 40 per cent drop in property crime over the last six years. Speaking at state of crime seminar on Monday morning, Deputy Chief Const. Warren Lemcke said the biggest drops have been in residential break and enters and auto theft. “We could not [...]
Tweet A 46-year-old man is in police custody in Vancouver after officers found a loaded handgun on the man late Friday evening. Police say staff at a business on West Georgia in the downtown core called 911 shortly after 5 p.m. PT. They told officers they believed a man who was acting suspiciously might have [...]
Tweet For the second time in less than 48 hours, a body has been found at a Vancouver Island trail. The body of a middle-aged man was found near the popular Galloping Goose trail at Colquitz River Park in Colwood Sunday, police said. Officers were seen taping off areas of the park around a foot [...]
Tweet Vancouver police say the number of violent crimes jumped 30 per cent during the Olympics last month. Most of the crimes were assaults, including sexual assaults. Police say the spike could have resulted because of the huge number of people who were drawn to downtown Vancouver during the Games. The most violent incident involved [...]
Tweet Vancouver police are investigating the suspicious death of a male who was found lying in an alley early Sunday. The man in his 50s was alive when police were called to the alley in the 900-block Richards and Homer streets at 2 a.m. Police spokesman Const. Lindsey Houghton said the man died in hospital [...]