Fallen Saints member gets three-year sentence for cocaine delivery
Delivering two ounces of cocaine to an undercover police officer has landed Carl Allan Trobak with a three-year prison sentence. The 29-year-old was a member of the Fallen Saints Motorcycle Club in...
View ArticleBre McAdam's Saskatoon court wrap for June 9
Watch: In a regular feature, StarPhoenix court reporter Bre McAdam talks about some of the cases that went through Saskatoon courts this week.
View ArticleDavid Woods murder appeal adjourned at defence's request
Slightly more than three years ago, David Neil Woods received an automatic life sentence after a jury convicted him of first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Dorothy. Woods was scheduled to...
View ArticleDangerous offender hearing underway for man who killed Rocky Genereaux
A hearing is underway in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench to determine if the man convicted of killing 42-year-old Rocky Genereaux should be designated a dangerous offender. Michael James Robertson...
View ArticleMan sentenced to three years for multiple sexual assaults against eight-year...
Warning: disturbing content A Queen’s Bench judge has imposed a three-year prison sentence upon a man who admitted sexually assaulting his roommates’ eight-year-old daughter more than a decade ago in...
View ArticleEx-gang member testifies at his dangerous offender hearing in Saskatoon
Michael James Robertson knows he has to go to prison for fatally stabbing a man during an argument over a cellphone chip; he alluded to it himself. “I don’t think I deserve a chance right now,”...
View ArticleCrown seeks 17-year term for Saskatoon man who paid for live streamed child...
Warning: graphic content In a world where children are referred to as a number — their age — Philip Michael Chicoine always chose the youngest when paying women in the Philippines and Romania to live...
View ArticleJail term necessary for speeder who slammed into truck, judge rules
The only reasonable sentence for a man who slammed into the back of a truck at 113 km/h on a city street is a jail term, a Saskatoon judge says. Queen’s Bench Justice Daryl Labach disagreed with the...
View Article'Save my kids': last words from Sask. woman killed by drunk driver
In a Saskatoon courtroom, Laureen Plageman quietly approached the drunk driver who killed her daughter and grandson five years ago on a Saskatchewan highway. Bending down to where he sat in his...
View Article'She never saw it coming': Hudson Bay man gets life sentence for shooting...
MELFORT — When Stacey Lewis arrived to pick up her nine-year-old daughter from her ex-husband’s home in Hudson Bay, Sask., Steven Lee Lewis grabbed a shotgun and fired it through the front door while...
View ArticleNo 'hands-on offending' warrants seven-year sentence for man who helped...
*Warning: disturbing content The Saskatoon man who paid and directed impoverished women in Romania and the Philippines to live-stream the sexual abuse of their children is just as culpable as the...
View ArticleBre McAdam's Saskatoon court wrap for June 30
Watch: In a regular feature, StarPhoenix court reporter Bre McAdam talks about some of the cases that went through Saskatoon courts this week.
View ArticleFallen Saints member gets four-year sentence for drug trafficking conspiracy
Conspiring to bring a kilogram of cocaine from Alberta to Saskatoon has landed a member of the Fallen Saints Motorcycle Club with a four-year prison sentence after he was caught in a massive police...
View ArticleAssault charge withdrawn after Meadow Lake RCMP officer completes mediation
A Meadow Lake RCMP officer has had his off-duty assault charge withdrawn after going through mediation. Cst. Khen Wilkins was charged in August 2016 in connection to an altercation at a private...
View ArticleMan who assaulted woman with knife, hammer to serve jail sentence
A Saskatoon man who hit a woman with a hammer, then stabbed her, will serve his jail sentence in the community so that he can care for his visually impaired wife. The jointly-proposed conditional...
View ArticleJudge rules police agent's testimony 'only direct evidence' of cocaine
A Queen’s Bench judge’s decision to convict a man of conspiring to traffic cocaine to Saskatoon from Edmonton weighed heavily on the testimony of a controversial police agent. Noel Harder testified at...
View ArticleMan sentenced on 26 charges of fraud, breaking and entering apartment
A man who broke into mailboxes in seven different Saskatoon apartment buildings and made 34 transactions with stolen credit cards has been sentenced to 18 months in jail. Between Dec. 11, 2016 and Jan....
View ArticlePrison term for Martensville man who says he is 'addicted' to child porn
A judge handed a penitentiary sentence to a Martensville man who says he is addicted to child pornography — to the point where he continued downloading it even after his wife caught him. Around 12,000...
View ArticleWoman gets two-year sentence for involvement in 2016 murder of Cynthia Crampton
A woman charged in connection with the death of Cynthia Crampton — the victim of Saskatoon’s seventh homicide of 2016 — has been sentenced after pleading guilty to accessory after the fact to murder....
View ArticleDog fostering benefits both people and pups
Finding a good home for a neglected dog can take time — and sometimes, there isn’t enough room in a shelter. Foster-based rescues across the province remove dogs from dire situations and place them in...
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