Crime, Cops and Court

Latest news from the Estevan police department.

In August 2022, the province announced regulatory changes to increase accountability of qualified independent schools in response to abuse allegations against Legacy Christian Academy.

Former chief of Keeseekoose First Nation, Theodore (Ted) Quewezance, is a residential school survivor and advocate for Reconciliation and faces historical sexual assault charges.

Canora/Sturgis RCMP were dispatched to an assault complaint where a woman struck her mother, threatened to kill her, then pushed her out of a parked vehicle.

Travis Patron had followed and confronted an RCMP officer – who was the Iraqi-born RCMP officer who had testified against Patron at his hate trial – saying, 'Why are you with a Canadian woman?'

'Our officers face numerous different threats and forms of endangerment on a daily basis, and having a firearm pointing at you while you are responding to an emergency situation is one of the most significant of those threats:' S/Sgt. Stephen Hurst.

The latest news from the Estevan police department.

Ricky Manz owns the abandoned school in Richmound where QAnon self-proclaimed leader Romana Didulo and her supporters camped out.

Police say the investigation is continuing with further charges pending.

Officers from the Saskatoon Police Service (SPS) Guns & Gangs Unit were trying to arrest a suspect known to be in violation of court-imposed conditions inside a mall in the 200 block of 1st Avenue South.