LMT October 22 2018

RCMP REPORT
RCMP prepared for the legalization
of cannabis
Last Tuesday, the Saskatchewan
RCMP Communications Unit issued the
following statement:
On October 17, 2018, cannabis became
legal in Canada. In response, the Saskatchewan
RCMP has increased capacity
in numerous areas, such as prevention
and engagement, intelligence, and
training to ensure officers are prepared.
Impaired driving continues to be a pressing
concern in Saskatchewan and the
Saskatchewan RCMP has been working
diligently with municipal, provincial, and
federal partners to ensure officers are
well-equipped to detect drug-impaired
driving.
This year, Saskatchewan RCMP has
trained over 100 officers in the administration
of the Standardized Field Sobriety
tests (SFSTs) and are on track to have
over 100 Drug Recognition Evaluators
(DREs) by the end of 2019. Officers are
also being trained on the Oral Fluid
Device (OFD) as part of the limited,
strategic roll-out of these devices which
are used for roadside drug impairment
testing. This training builds on the foundation
officers already have to test for
impaired driving.
The Saskatchewan RCMP reminds the
public that impaired driving of any kind
is illegal. Alcohol and cannabis need to
be consumed responsibly and the RCMP
will continue to enforce illegal consumption
and impaired driving. The RCMP
will enforce the new cannabis laws in
regards to the possession, cultivation and
sale of cannabis products, and wishes to
remind the public that they must adhere
to the new cannabis legislation and Saskatchewan
Cannabis Control Act.
More details on Nokomis Credit
Union break-in
Watrous RCMP have released a few
more details on the attempted robbery
Last Mountain Times • Monday, October 22, 2018 • lmtimes.ca
at the Nokomis branch of Affinity Credit
Union overnite on October 6th. At approximately
3:49 in the morning Watrous
RCMP were alerted of an ATM alarm at
the Credit Union. The light at the back of
the bank had been disabled, and the front
door of the ATM had been cut open and
the vault behind the door attacked with
power tools. The attempt to gain access
to the ATM vault was unsuccessful.
Video obtained showed two males spent
15 minutes attempting to gain access to
the vault. They are believed responsible
for several of these ATM attacks around
the province. If you have any information
on this crime you are asked to call our
local police detachment or Saskatchewan
Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS.
Flight from police
At approximately 11:40 p.m. on Friday,
October 12th, Weyburn RCMP received a
complaint of an erratic driver travelling
south on Highway 35 towards Weyburn.
A member of the Weyburn Combined
Traffic Services Section (CTSS) was able
to locate the vehicle travelling at a high
rate of speed and attempted to stop the
vehicle.
The driver refused to stop for police
and at one point, turned around and accelerated
at a high rate of speed towards
the police vehicle. The RCMP member
took evasive action to avoid a head-on
collision. The driver continued efforts to
evade police, driving through a ditch and,
at one point, losing control and getting
stuck. As the RCMP member approached
the vehicle, the suspect driver managed
to get the vehicle out of the ditch and flee
again at a high speed. RCMP then discontinued
efforts to stop the vehicle due
to safety concerns.
Officers located the vehicle a short
time later just outside of Weyburn, still
occupied by the driver. The driver,
identified as 23-year old Derek Debnam,
was arrested without incident. Members
determined that Debnam was disqualified
from driving and that the vehicle
had been reported stolen. Debnam made
his first appearance in Regina Provincial
Court on October 15th, 2018. He faces
charges for five Criminal Code offenses.
Multiple charges laid following
assault/ATV collision
At approximately 12:15 a.m. on Sunday,
Oct. 14th, Saskatoon RCMP responded
to a report of an adult male threatening
an adult female in the Hanley area. Upon
arrival, members learned the suspect
had departed the scene on an all-terrain
vehicle (ATV) with the victim, against
her will.
The ATV was located, but the suspect
refused to stop for police. No pursuit was
initiated due to the potential risk to the
victim.As members continued to patrol,
the victim was located walking along a
rural road. She advised members that the
ATV had rolled, allowing her to escape.
She indicated that she believed the suspect
had been injured in the collision.
Members located the ATV, but not the
driver. Police Dog Section (PDS) was
brought in to assist and the suspect was
located a short time later hiding in an
empty railcar in the area. The suspect
was arrested without incident and transported
to hospital for non-life threatening
injuries sustained in the collision.
The victim was also transported to
hospital for treatment.
A 37-year-old male from the Wakaw
area has been charged with six Criminal
Code offenses. Because this investigation
is ongoing and in order to protect the
identity/privacy of the victim, the RCMP
is not releasing the accused’s name at this
time. Further updates will be provided as
they become available.
Serious collision investigated
At approximately 3:05 pm on October
13th, 2018 the Yorkton Rural RCMP
responded to a motor vehicle collision
involving two vehicles on highway #47
approximately 6 km’s north of Willowbrook,
Saskatchewan. Upon arrival at the
scene, one male (driver and lone occupant
of an SUV) was located deceased.
The male driver of the truck was transported
via ambulance to Yorkton Hospital
with undetermined injuries. A second
male in the truck was transported to the
Melville Hospital with undetermined
injuries and a third male in the truck
was transported via STARS to hospital in
Regina with unknown injuries.
Initial investigation has revealed that
the SUV and truck collided in the northbound
lane of highway #47.
Drug charges laid
On October 15, 2018, Prince Albert
RCMP and Prince Albert Combined
Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CF-
SEU) seized a significant amount of
marihuana at a storage locker in Prince
Albert. With the assistance of Saskatoon
CFSEU, search warrants were executed
on 3 residences in Saskatoon and another
storage locker in Saskatoon. As a result
of these search warrants police located
the following: 4244 individual packages
of cannabis resin with a street value of
$275-290,000; 46.5 pounds of cannabis
marihuana with a street value of $200-
230,000; 31 syringes of cannabis resin
with a street value of $3100; 1 ounce
of crack cocaine with a street value of
$2000; 1 restricted firearm (Ruger .357
handgun); and $4700 cash.
Two males have been arrested and
charged in relation to this investigation.
Neither of these males have a license
for medical marihuana or a license to
distribute under the new legislation.
The RCMP will enforce the new cannabis
laws in regards to the possession,
cultivation and sale of cannabis products,
and wishes to remind the public that they
must adhere to the new cannabis legislation
and Cannabis Control Act.
5
SPORTS
Sweeping changes in curling team lineups
There have been so many personnel changes within
the competitive curling world in Canada this season
that fans will need a program to know who’s playing
with whom.
Free agency in hockey and baseball means huge contracts
for those signing with new teams. In curling, free
agency means joining a different team with an Olympic
gold medal as the dangling carrot.
Teams regularly shuffle their personnel every four
years. It’s called an Olympic cycle. Skips put together a
squad they feel can win the Canadian Olympic curling
trials — likely to be held in Saskatoon in early December,
2021 — and then play together for three full years to
prime the pump and work on team chemistry.
World champion Brad Gushue’s team was one of
the few to maintain the status quo. But Kevin Koe of
Alberta, a two-time world champ and three-time Brier
winner, came up short in the 2018 Brier and enters this
season with a new look. He added B.J. Neufeld (formerly
of Mike McEwen’s rink) as third to replace Mark
Kennedy (who’s taking a year off), and Colton Flasch
at second, to replace Brent Laing. The only holdover,
besides Koe, is lead Ben Hebert.
McEwen, always a contender lately, blew his team up
completely. He left to join fellow Winnipegger Reid Carruthers
and will throw fourth stones while Carruthers
calls the game. The stragglers on McEwen’s rink, Matt
Wozniak and Denni Neufeld, were left to fend for themselves.
Neufeld wound up with Jason Gunnlaugson of
Winnipeg.
Jim Cotter of Vernon, a regular on the World Curling
Tour, has replaced third John Morris with former
Saskatoon skip Steven Laycock, who has been to a few
Briers and Olympic trials. Another Saskatchewanian,
Braeden Moskowky, who curled third for Carruthers
for four years, got bumped when McEwen joined the
team, and is now throwing third stones for Winnipeg’s
Matt Dunstone. But that team is now based in Regina,
so its road to the Brier won’t be derailed by the
Caruthers-McEwen juggernaut in Manitoba.
Down east, skip John Epping of Toronto has shuffled
his deck, adding former Glenn Howard front-enders
Laing and Craig Saville. Matt Camm stays at third.
The biggest news in the women’s game was four skips
— Kerri Einarson of Gimli, Val Sweeting of Edmonton,
and two Winnipeggers, Shannon Birchard and Brianne
Meilleur — joining forces. Things clicked in the early
going, with the team, led by Einarson, winning its
first four events. Jennifer Jones’ long-time second, Jill
Officer, has stepped away from the game, and Jocelyn
Peterman, formerly the second with Chelsea Carey of
Calgary, has taken Officer’s spot.
To sum up, Canadian curling has undergone some
sweeping changes. Success or failure will take a few
years to determine.
Sheldon Ocker, on Twitter: “Umpire Angel
Hernandez has had three calls overturned at first in
Boston-NY game three. One more and he wins a $50
gift card to LensCrafters.”
Norman Chad of the Washington Post, on Twitter,
following a rough outing by the Dodgers’ catcher in
Game 1 of the NLCS: “Yasmani Grandal’s third inning:
passed ball, catcher’s interference, error. Is that a hat
trick or fielding for the cycle?”
FROM THE
SIDELINES
BRUCE PENTON
Chad again, on the NFL’s roughing-the-passer
controversies: “We
might reach the point where you
don’t even touch the quarterback,
you just serve him with papers.”
Reader Fred Hedden of New
York: “We all know that President
Trump has a dislike for international
agreements such as NAFTA, the
Trans-Pacific Partnership and the Paris climate accord.
Why didn’t he pull the U.S. out of the Ryder Cup?”
RJ Currie of sportsdeke.com: “The NHL Global
Series had Edmonton playing New Jersey in Sweden,
with Devils MVP and ex-Oiler Taylor Hall against
ex-Devil Adam Larsson. BTW: What’s Swedish for stupid
trade?”
Currie again: “Minimum wage in Saskatchewan has
increased from $10.96/hour to $11.06/hour. In a related
story, the Roughriders just exceeded the CFL salary
cap.”
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