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Some of the 3D printed ghost guns seized in Operation Centaure are displayed during a news conference in Montreal, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. The multi force operation seized 440 guns including 71 3D printed ghost guns across Canada.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz

Police arrest 45, seize 440 weapons in Canada-wide ghost gun raids

Search warrants executed in 8 provinces targeting 3D-printed guns bound for crime

Some of the 3D printed ghost guns seized in Operation Centaure are displayed during a news conference in Montreal, Wednesday, June 21, 2023. The multi force operation seized 440 guns including 71 3D printed ghost guns across Canada.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Ryan Remiorz
Newcastle residents rally at Pearson Park to demand action from the government on Tuesday, June 20, after a man was shot near an encampment along the banks of Millstone River last week. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)

Residents rally after another shooting in Nanaimo’s Newcastle neighbourhood

Rally comes after second person shot within three months at homeless encampment

Newcastle residents rally at Pearson Park to demand action from the government on Tuesday, June 20, after a man was shot near an encampment along the banks of Millstone River last week. (Bailey Seymour/News Bulletin)
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PQB crime report: Resident falls victim to text scam seeking banking info

Oceanside RCMP also deal with egged home, tool theft

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FILE - Andrew Tate, right, and his brother Tristan arrive outside the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), where prosecutors examine electronic equipment confiscated during the investigation in their case, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, April 10, 2023. Romanian prosecutors charged on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, the Tate brothers and two other suspects with human trafficking, rape and organizing a criminal group for the sexual exploitation of women. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)

Social media star Andrew Tate charged with rape and human trafficking in Romania

Andrew Tate, a social media personality known for expressing misogynistic views online,…

FILE - Andrew Tate, right, and his brother Tristan arrive outside the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), where prosecutors examine electronic equipment confiscated during the investigation in their case, in Bucharest, Romania, Monday, April 10, 2023. Romanian prosecutors charged on Tuesday, June 20, 2023, the Tate brothers and two other suspects with human trafficking, rape and organizing a criminal group for the sexual exploitation of women. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, File)
Anyone with information is asked to call Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345. (Black Press Media file photo)

Youth badly beaten with baseball bat in Nanaimo’s Harewood area

Assault ‘has shocked the community,’ say RCMP

Anyone with information is asked to call Nanaimo RCMP at 250-754-2345. (Black Press Media file photo)
FILE - Bill Cosby arrives for a sentencing hearing following his sexual assault conviction at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown Pa. Nine more women are accusing Cosby of sexual assault in a lawsuit that alleges he used what they call his “enormous power, fame and prestige” to victimize them. A lawsuit filed Wednesday, June 14, 2023, in federal court in Nevada alleges that the women were individually drugged and assaulted between approximately 1979 and 1992 in Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe homes, dressing rooms and hotels. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Bill Cosby sued by 9 more women in Nevada for alleged decades-old sexual assaults

Nine more women are accusing Bill Cosby of sexual assault in a…

FILE - Bill Cosby arrives for a sentencing hearing following his sexual assault conviction at the Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown Pa. Nine more women are accusing Cosby of sexual assault in a lawsuit that alleges he used what they call his “enormous power, fame and prestige” to victimize them. A lawsuit filed Wednesday, June 14, 2023, in federal court in Nevada alleges that the women were individually drugged and assaulted between approximately 1979 and 1992 in Las Vegas, Reno and Lake Tahoe homes, dressing rooms and hotels. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
Police and firefighters load a victim onto a clamshell stretcher to carry him up a steep embankment to an ambulance along Terminal Avenue on Wednesday, June 14. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)

Shots fired at Nanaimo homeless camp, one person seriously injured

Two people detained by police after incident along Terminal Avenue on June 14

Police and firefighters load a victim onto a clamshell stretcher to carry him up a steep embankment to an ambulance along Terminal Avenue on Wednesday, June 14. (Chris Bush/News Bulletin)
Prince Rupert RCMP vehicles and yellow crime scene tape can be seen cordoning off a multi-residence property numbered 166 and 168 Silversides Drive where four people were found deceased on June 13. (Photo: K-J Millar/The Northern View)

RCMP investigating homicide after four bodies found in Prince Rupert

Police say public not at risk, but providing few other details

Prince Rupert RCMP vehicles and yellow crime scene tape can be seen cordoning off a multi-residence property numbered 166 and 168 Silversides Drive where four people were found deceased on June 13. (Photo: K-J Millar/The Northern View)
The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police “E” Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

Police seek witnesses after B.C. high school teacher charged with sexual assault

Former North Vancouver school teacher arrested in Ontario

The RCMP logo is seen outside Royal Canadian Mounted Police “E” Division Headquarters, in Surrey, B.C. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck
FILE - The logo of JPMorgan bank is pictured at the new French headquarters of JP Morgan bank, Tuesday, June 29, 2021, in Paris. JPMorgan Chase is defending itself against a lawsuit by the U.S. Virgin Islands accusing it of empowering Jeffrey Epstein to abuse teenage girls. Lawyers for the giant bank said in court papers Tuesday, May 23, 2023, that it was the islands that enabled the financier to commit his crimes. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool, File)

Jeffrey Epstein victims settle sex trafficking lawsuit against JPMorgan for $290 million

JPMorgan Chase announced a tentative $290 million settlement Monday with the victims…

FILE - The logo of JPMorgan bank is pictured at the new French headquarters of JP Morgan bank, Tuesday, June 29, 2021, in Paris. JPMorgan Chase is defending itself against a lawsuit by the U.S. Virgin Islands accusing it of empowering Jeffrey Epstein to abuse teenage girls. Lawyers for the giant bank said in court papers Tuesday, May 23, 2023, that it was the islands that enabled the financier to commit his crimes. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, Pool, File)
Richins’ children’s book about grief, “Are You With Me?” was released a year after Eric’s death. (Amazon)

Utah woman accused of killing husband then writing grief book for kids requests bail

A Utah woman who wrote a children’s book about coping with grief…

Richins’ children’s book about grief, “Are You With Me?” was released a year after Eric’s death. (Amazon)
It will likely take until the end of the summer to replace the playground equipment in Centennial Park that was destroyed by fire in the early morning hours of May 26. (Citizen file photo)

It will take several months to replace destroyed playground equipment, City of Duncan says

Centennial Park playground burned down in act of arson in May

It will likely take until the end of the summer to replace the playground equipment in Centennial Park that was destroyed by fire in the early morning hours of May 26. (Citizen file photo)
Mia Golden, youth counsellor, speaks during a funding announcement in Colwood for the province’s investment of $130,000 into the Pacific Centre Family Services Association. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)

New funding aims to stop predators from exploiting Greater Victoria youth

$130K for Mobile Youth Service Team and Crime Reduction and Exploitation Diversion programs

Mia Golden, youth counsellor, speaks during a funding announcement in Colwood for the province’s investment of $130,000 into the Pacific Centre Family Services Association. (Justin Samanski-Langille/News Staff)
Victoria police are asking for the public’s help. (Black Press Media file photo)

VicPD searches for suspicious black vehicle after hit and run

The wanted vehicle fled the scene after the collision on Bay Street

Victoria police are asking for the public’s help. (Black Press Media file photo)
The Kelowna RCMP are investigating a home in an Upper Mission neighbourhood following two people found dead in a home on Thursday, June 8. (Jen Zielinski/Black Press)

2 women dead, man in hospital following ‘serious crime’ in Kelowna, no concern for public safety

A baby was found uninjured in the home; RCMP asking public to stay away during investigation

The Kelowna RCMP are investigating a home in an Upper Mission neighbourhood following two people found dead in a home on Thursday, June 8. (Jen Zielinski/Black Press)
Leanne and Ron Beaven are shocked by a judge’s decision to acquit a man charged with stabbing Ron in a December 2021 incident while on the job as a security guard. Photo by Alistair Taylor/Campbell River Mirror

Acquittal in Campbell River Walmart stabbing shocks victim

The security guard stabbed in the Campbell River Walmart in December, 2021…

Leanne and Ron Beaven are shocked by a judge’s decision to acquit a man charged with stabbing Ron in a December 2021 incident while on the job as a security guard. Photo by Alistair Taylor/Campbell River Mirror
FILE — This March 28, 2017 photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. Nearly four years after Epstein died in jail in New York, the AP has obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents related to his death from the Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Law. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)

New details of Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the frantic aftermath revealed in records obtained by AP

Two weeks before ending his life, Jeffrey Epstein sat in the corner…

FILE — This March 28, 2017 photo, provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry, shows Jeffrey Epstein. Nearly four years after Epstein died in jail in New York, the AP has obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents related to his death from the Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Law. (New York State Sex Offender Registry via AP, File)
Danny Masterson and his wife Bijou Phillips arrive for closing arguments in his second trial, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Los Angeles. Masterson is charged with raping three women at his Los Angeles home between 2001 and 2003. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)

Danny Masterson convicted of 2 counts of rape; ‘That ’70s Show’ actor faces 30 years to life

“That ’70s Show” star Danny Masterson was led out in handcuffs from…

Danny Masterson and his wife Bijou Phillips arrive for closing arguments in his second trial, Tuesday, May 16, 2023, in Los Angeles. Masterson is charged with raping three women at his Los Angeles home between 2001 and 2003. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Firefighters in Coldstream are battling a major house fire on Hawthorne Place Friday, Jan. 14. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)

Vernon arson suspect to stand trial

Matthew Eric Mason is the suspect tied to a fire that destroyed a Coldstream home in early 2022

Firefighters in Coldstream are battling a major house fire on Hawthorne Place Friday, Jan. 14. (Roger Knox - Morning Star)
RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance in locating two men that may have some information about an alleged sexual assault which happen in Duncan on May 16. (Courtesy of RCMP)

RCMP looking for 2 men who may know something about sexual assault in Duncan

Woman reported being sexually assaulted on May 16

RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance in locating two men that may have some information about an alleged sexual assault which happen in Duncan on May 16. (Courtesy of RCMP)