Crime scene detailed at Johnny Klassen murder trial
Warning: graphic content Photographs of the blood-splattered white walls and floor of a converted bedroom in the old Kerrobert town hall resembled a crime scene out of a horror movie. Except, as...
View ArticleB.C. man gets eight years for trafficking $200,000 worth of hard drugs to...
A Vancouver man who repeatedly sold hard drugs to a police agent involved in Project Forseti — one of Saskatoon’s largest drug busts — has been sentenced to eight years in prison. Adam Harada knew the...
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Former Saskatoon teacher Rhett Lundgren pleads guilty to online child sex crimes
Former Saskatoon high school teacher Rhett Lundgren is scheduled to be sentenced early next year after pleading guilty to three child pornography and sex offences. Lundgren’s trial this week was...
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Two Saskatoon murder cases committed to trial
A man charged with Saskatoon’s last homicide of 2017 and a woman charged with the city’s third homicide of 2018 have been committed to stand trial. Alistair Duncan Stewart’s preliminary hearing wrapped...
View ArticleSentences range from 3 to 4.5 years for men convicted of confining, robbing...
Sentencing for three men who trapped two teen girls in an SUV during an attempted robbery concluded in Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench last week. Robert James George Caisse was the last to be...
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Last Fallen Saints member sentenced in Project Forseti gets 4 years for...
A low-level cocaine dealer caught up in high-level trafficking is a “hard working guy” who got in over his head, according to Daryl Michael Nagy’s lawyer. Nagy, a 29-year-old journeyman painter and...
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Johnny Klassen allegedly killed father six days after mental health...
Johnny Dyck Klassen is accused of killing his father, 53-year-old Johan Klassen Sr., just days after Johan reported his son’s mental health emergency to Kerrobert RCMP. Testifying at Klassen’s...
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Kiel Stewart convicted of drunk driving crash that killed two near Young, Sask.
Kiel Stewart stared blankly ahead as a Saskatoon provincial court judge found him guilty of nine charges, including two counts of drunk driving causing death, in connection with a fatal crash two years...
View ArticleNorthwoods Inn owner John Pontes found guilty of groping tenant, but not...
The owner of the Northwoods Inn and Suites in Saskatoon has been found guilty of sexual assault for grabbing a female tenant’s breasts, but not for a rape she alleged happened later that night. Both...
View ArticleThe Docket: Two big trial verdicts and a noteworthy drug trafficking case
StarPhoenix court reporter Bre McAdam reviews the biggest court cases for the week in this episode of The Docket. On Thursday, Northwoods Inn and Suites owner John Pontes was convicted of sexual...
View ArticleTerror Squad member should get 15-year parole ineligibility for murdering...
Kendra Phillips loved the thought of getting an updated family photo with her two brothers at her wedding, which her oldest brother Dylan couldn’t wait to attend. He likely would have giggled and made...
View ArticleThe Docket: Bre McAdam's court wrap for the week of Nov. 13, 2018
Saskatoon StarPhoenix court reporter Bre McAdam reviews the biggest court cases for the week of Nov. 13 to Nov. 16 in this episode of The Docket. This week, Bre talks about sentencing arguments for...
View ArticleLawyers say repeat child abuser who drugged, raped boy should get 18-year...
Warning: graphic content Through a weeklong hearing, the Crown and defence will demonstrate why a man who sexually assaulted three kids and two adults should be sentenced as a dangerous offender. On...
View ArticleGabriel Faucher acquitted of manslaughter in death of girlfriend Beverly...
A chorus of people screamed “No!” — some wept and left the courtroom — after a Saskatoon judge pronounced Gabriel Joseph Faucher not guilty of manslaughter in connection with the death of his...
View Article'He was helping himself to my child:' Mother of child sex assault victim says...
Warning: Graphic content The boy’s mother believed Kenneth John Bowman wanted to help by taking care of her son while she was at work. Instead, Bowman drugged and raped the eight-year-old. “He was...
View ArticleJudge designates child rapist Kenneth Bowman a dangerous offender
Warning: graphic content “Thank you, your Honour,” the family of a child sexual assault victim said from the gallery after a Saskatoon provincial court judge gave the child’s rapist, Kenneth John...
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Defence argues Johnny Klassen was likely suffering from a mental disorder...
Warning: graphic content When Johnny Dyck Klassen stomped on his father’s head and slashed his neck during an argument in their Kerrobert apartment suite, he knew it was legally wrong. He told an...
View ArticleThe Docket: Faucher not guilty of manslaughter; dangerous offender...
In this week’s edition of The Docket, Bre McAdam talks about the case of Kenneth John Bowman, who sexually abused two boys and has been designated as a dangerous offender. She also describes the...
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'Simon gave him the shirt off his back, but he still killed him:' La Ronge...
LA RONGE — In a small, tightly-packed courtroom, the story of a La Ronge restaurateur beaten to death by a boy he had cared for was laid out in careful, heartbreaking detail. Simon Grant was a...
View ArticleMan breached no-contact order when he confined ex and child
After screaming for help from the back seat of a vehicle south of Saskatoon, a woman called police to say the driver wouldn’t let her and her son leave and was threatening to crash the car and kill...
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