Crime & Courts

Police arrest truck theft suspect a week after public plea for information

MEDICINE HAT, AB - After a week of searching, Medicine Hat Police have arrested a man they believe to be involved with a stolen vehicle case earlier this month.Police say they located and arrested 36-...

Jul 27, 2019 File Photo

50th anniversary of Aberdeen Street shootout

It was a legendary shootout in the history of Medicine Hat which left a culprit shot dead in the street, a city policeman shot in the face and 11 civilians taken captive, including the chief of police...

Jul 26, 2019 Photo courtesy of MHPS - The safe from the Saving Centre Grocery sits in the trunk of the would-be getaway vehicle involved in the Aberdeen Street shootout.

Alberta RCMP apologize for poor investigation into Indigenous woman's death

EDMONTON - The commanding officer of the RCMP in Alberta has apologized to the family of an Indigenous woman who disappeared nine years ago and whose killer has never been found.Amber Tuccaro was 20 y...

Jul 25, 2019 Amber Tuccaro

ALERT makes second major drug bust in a week in Medicine Hat

MEDICINE HAT - The ALERT unit has made another drug bust.42 thousand dollars in cash and drugs were seized including methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl.Police are concerned with the 67 grams of fen...

Jul 24, 2019 ALERT unit photo

Police seek B.C. murder suspects in swamp, bush, bugs of northern Manitoba

The deputy mayor of a remote northern Manitoba town says residents are locking their doors earlier than usual after word of a police manhunt in the area for two suspects in the deaths o...

Jul 24, 2019

Crime rate rose in 2018 but country still safer than a decade ago

OTTAWA - Statistics Canada says the country's crime rate ticked up again in 2018, for a fourth year in a row, though it was still lower than it was a decade ago.The severity of crime also rose by two ...

Jul 22, 2019

Defence calling no evidence in case of German tourist shot west of Calgary

CALGARY - The defence is calling no evidence on behalf of a youth accused of shooting a German tourist in the head on a highway west of Calgary last summer. The teen from the Stoney Nakoda First ...

Jul 18, 2019

Cyber Incident at YMCA

City police are investigating a "cyber incident" at the Medicine Hat YMCA, CHAT News has learned."YMCA of Medicine Hat can confirm that the server used by our association has been impacted by a cyber ...

Jul 17, 2019 File Photo

Interviews with family of highway shooting victim heard in Calgary court

CALGARY - The trial of an Alberta youth accused of firing a gun at a German tourist on a highway west of Calgary is having to rely on police interviews done with the family after he was shot...

Jul 17, 2019

Record methamphetamine bust in Medicine Hat

MEDICINE HAT - The ALERT unit has made what it believes is the largest seizure of methamphetamine in Medicine Hat's history.A two month investigation resulted in seizure of 1.13 kilograms of meth, alo...

Jul 17, 2019 Alberta Law Enforcement Response Team photo