Parole denied for man convicted in Sask's largest fraud case
The Saskatchewan man convicted in the biggest fraud case in the province’s history has been denied early release from prison. Ronald Jerry Fast, 73, is serving a seven-year sentence after pleading...
View ArticlePrison sentence for man found carrying sawed-off rifle in backpack
A drug user carrying a loaded, prohibited firearm in a backpack while roaming around Saskatoon posed a risk to both the public and the police officers who found him, a Crown prosecutor told a Saskatoon...
View ArticleDefence challenges Project Forseti search warrant for Fallen Saints president
A Saskatoon defence lawyer is challenging the reasons for a search warrant that led to gun and drug charges against Mark Michael Nowakowski, the president of the Fallen Saints Motorcycle Club, whose...
View ArticleArguments over search warrant in Project Forseti case adjourned to Sept.
The continuation of arguments in a charter application hearing surrounding the Project Forseti search warrant for the president of the Fallen Saints Motorcycle Club has been adjourned to give the...
View ArticleEscaped dangerous offender has history of sexual violence in Sask.
Darrell Peter Moosomin — the dangerous offender who escaped from a federal correctional facility in Alberta last weekend — has a history of horrendous crimes involving torture in Saskatchewan....
View ArticleJudge to decide if woman who killed son knew act was 'morally wrong'
At the time she killed her five-year-old son, a Saskatoon woman diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic still knew the act was “morally wrong” and that it would be viewed that way by society, a Crown...
View ArticleMan accused of assaulting wife, who later died, has charge stayed
An aggravated assault charge has been stayed against a Saskatoon man accused of domestic violence against his wife, who died while he was in custody. Michael Paul Welsh, 44, was charged on Sept. 17,...
View Article'It was an accident': Man sentenced for hit-and-run that injured woman
On a dark, snowy morning in the dead of winter, Kevin Dewayne Gysler hit a 69-year-old woman who was walking to work near Broadway Avenue and Third Street. Gysler, who was 22 years old at the time,...
View ArticleAdjournment for teen accused of killing Nikosis Cantre
The Saskatchewan teen accused of killing a six-week old baby after she left an open custody youth facility in Saskatoon appeared by video in provincial court on Wednesday. Her case was adjourned to...
View ArticleAppeal filed in Saskatoon home invasion
A man whose friend was killed during a home invasion they were involved with in the Grosvenor Park neighbourhood is appealing the seven-year sentence he received last month. Nicholas Francis MacLeod,...
View ArticleViterra found not guilty in death of grain terminal worker
A Saskatoon judge has acquitted Viterra of six charges under the Canada Labour Code in connection with the death of a junior employee who suffocated in a grain bin at a terminal near Rosetown nearly...
View ArticleSerial rapist from Sask denied parole again
A serial rapist from Saskatchewan serving an indeterminate sentence in British Columbia has been denied parole for the second time since 2014. The parole board ruled this month that Clifford Barry...
View ArticleMontreal man gets 3.5 years for Birks jewelry heist
Wiping tears from his eyes, Rida Naim listened as a judge sentenced him for a brazen daytime robbery at a downtown Saskatoon jewelry store, calling the crime “terrifying and dangerous.” Four men...
View ArticleMan sentenced in domestic aggravated assault case
A Saskatoon man who hit his domestic partner on the head with a glass tumbler during a heated argument over the issue of residential schools has been given an 18-month sentence. On top of that, Luke...
View ArticleWoman found not guilty of defrauding elderly friend
A Saskatoon Court of Queen’s Bench judge has found a Saskatchewan woman not guilty of fraud over $5,000 after an elderly friend gave her nearly $400,000 and a quarter section of land, causing a rift...
View ArticleSentencing arguments to be heard in Sask. murder conspiracy case
A Prince Albert judge is expected to hear sentencing arguments today in the case of Angela Nicholson and Curtis Vey, the Saskatchewan pair convicted of conspiring to kill their spouses. After three...
View ArticlePair sentenced to three years for murder conspiracy that 'tore families apart'
A man from the Wakaw area and a woman from Melfort will serve federal sentences for conspiring to kill their spouses in a case that shocked many in rural Saskatchewan and beyond. Curtis Vey, 53, and...
View ArticleMan gets federal sentence for sexual assault on minor
A man from the La Loche area convicted of sexually assaulting a teen girl has been ordered to serve 27 months at the Regional Psychiatric Centre (RPC) in Saskatoon at a judge’s request. The written...
View ArticleMan hit by city patching truck wants apology, new bike
On the morning of June 1, Calvin Carr was heading to work downtown along Idylwyld Drive near 29th Street when a City of Saskatoon road patching truck hit him. He was walking his bike in a crosswalk...
View ArticleExactly four years after Saskatoon mother Lorry Santos killed, Joshua Petrin...
Lorry Ann Santos was on maternity leave with her fourth child when she was fatally shot on the way to answer her door. The Saskatoon woman had no idea who could be ringing her doorbell that early in...
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