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[Mike K.]

Langford sudden death:

On December 10, 2024, at approximately 10:45 p.m. West Shore RCMP attended the area of Claude Rd near Goldstream Ave for a 40-year-old man who had been located unconscious and laying on the sidewalk at this location.

BC Emergency Health Services and Langford Fire Department were already on scene and applying life saving measures. The man, who is identified as a Langford resident, was pronounced deceased at the scene.

At this point there is nothing to suggest there is any foul play involved, however West Shore RCMP continue to investigate the circumstances of this man’s death.

Anyone walking or driving on Claude Road on December 10th, between 9:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. who may have seen the man with his dog, prior to him falling unconscious, is asked to call the West Shore RCMP.

The deceased man is described as:

40-year-old Cacausian man;
Walking a black medium sized dog;
Wearing dark jeans and a light-colored coat.
Additionally, anyone driving in the area of Claude Road / Goldstream Ave who has dash camera footage of their travels, is asked to call the West Shore RCMP.

If you think you have any information that could assist police in this investigation please call West Shore RCMP at 250-474-2264.

[UDeMan]

I've had two coworkers that dropped dead while walking their dogs, both heart attacks. They were both in their 50s, thin and otherwise in good health. Lots of undiagnosed heart disease out there.

[pontcanna]

Man viciously beat up Nanaimo security guard, attacked stranger in Campbell River

Dec 13, 2024

NANAIMO — Unaddressed substance abuse and personal turmoil clashed in a pair of violent, chaotic incidents on behalf of a man with a limited criminal past.

 

David Richard Patrick, 39, entered late guilty pleas to assault, assault causing bodily harm and impaired driving in relation to a pair of alarming and dangerous events in Nanaimo and Campbell River.

An agreed statement of facts read out on Thursday, Dec 13 in Nanaimo by Crown counsel’s Tania Holland included a chilling four-minute long 911 call where a desperate Nanaimo security guard was heard being beaten by Patrick.

The incident began several minutes prior when a separate security guard noticed the offender breaking the window of a vacant commercial unit at University Village Shopping Centre on Fifth St.

Nanaimo RCMP were called, and an intoxicated Patrick ran off.

Police made unsuccessful attempts to find Patrick, then about a half-hour later just after midnight on Jan. 12, 2022 he returned to the shopping centre where he confronted the victim near the 7-Eleven convenience store.

The victim, who NanaimoNewsNOW chose not to identify, told Patrick to leave the property.

Patrick then became verbally aggressive and approached the victim, who called 911.

A punch to the face was delivered by Patrick, sending the security guard into the snow.

Patrick then unleashed a series of kicks to the victim’s head and face area with steel toe boots, landing several damaging strikes.

The victim yelled “help” continuously to the 911 operator as an aggressive Patrick was heard threatening and assaulting the guard.

The victim suffers from major depressive disorder, anxiety, fears large crowds and can’t return to the area where he was beaten.

He reported being barely able to sleep due to chronic arm pain and hasn’t found medication to ease his discomfort.

Six months prior to the damaging overnight assault in Nanaimo’s Harewood neighbourhood, Patrick was responsible for an egregious episode of impaired driving and assault in Campbell River.

(Witness) estimated Patrick was travelling upwards of 100 kilometers an hour in the 50 km/h subdivision when he barrelled into two parked vehicles, a trailer and street light pole.

While being confronted, Patrick took off his shirt, claimed he just got out of the military and said he’d kill one of the Good Samaritans, whom the offender punched several times in the head.

Crown: “He admitted he consumed 26 ounces of vodka and passed out while driving. The accused was arrested and proceeded to hit his head on the divider in the police vehicle causing a large gash on his forehead.”

A forensic evaluation categorized Patrick as a moderately high risk to re-offend, flagging significant concerns about his addiction to alcohol and various hard drugs.

(Crown) requested nine months in jail, followed by two years-probation.

Patrick’s lawyer pushed for a two-year conditional sentence order (non-custodial), including 10 months of house arrest.

Patrick is a Nanaimo based roofer who’s attempting to start his own company.

Judge Chris Churchill is expected to render his judgment in the new year.
 

More: https://nanaimonewsn...campbell-river/

[Mike K.]

Loud explosion heard and captured on video this AM, in downtown Victoria.

https://fb.watch/ws1rbv53xd/?

[pontcanna]

Break and Enter Suspect Charged and Items Recovered

December 13, 2024

Thanks to the quick actions of our officers and the assistance of the Victoria Police Department, a prolific offender has been arrested and charged in connection with a break and enter.

In the early morning of December 11, 2024, Saanich Police were alerted to a break and enter at a home in the Cordova Bay area. A large number of items were stolen from the home.

Further information led us to a storage facility in Victoria’s jurisdiction, where all the stolen items were located inside a locker.

On December 12, with the assistance of the Victoria Police Department, the suspect, Andrew Jason Knowland, was arrested without incident, in the 1900 block of Bay Street.

Mr. Knowland has been charged with five criminal offenses related to the break and enter.

He remains in custody with a future court date pending.

File #24-23160

Jason Hallman | Communications Advisor

[pontcanna]

University Liquor store robbery Thursday, Nanaimo RCMP search for suspect

Nanaimo RCMP is searching for a suspect involved in an alleged liquor store robbery Thursday night.

According to RCMP, the incident occurred at around 9:45 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 12 at the University Liquor Store, located at 520 Fifth Street in Nanaimo.

Employees told officers the suspect “entered the business and jumped over the counter. With a knife in his hand, he demanded money from the till. After receiving an undisclosed amount of cash, the suspect fled in an unknown direction of travel.”

 

Based on CCTV camera footage, the suspect has been described as five feet, 10 inches tall with a medium build, and wearing a black hoodie, dark-coloured toque and khaki pants. RCMP also say grey socks were covering his hands and employees reported his face was partially covered.

 

More: https://cheknews.ca/...uspect-1228931/

[pontcanna]

Loud explosion heard and captured on video this AM, in downtown Victoria.
 

 

Flashbang used during arrest source of loud bang in downtown Victoria

An explosion heard downtown around 5 a.m. Friday was from a “flashbang” used during the arrest of a suspect, Victoria police say.

The Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team and Victoria Police officers responded to a report of a disturbance just before 1:45 a.m. in the 700-block of Pandora Avenue.

A male was taken into custody shortly afterwards and the investigation is ongoing, according to police.

 

More: https://www.timescol...ictoria-9954392

[pontcanna]

Ex-masseur guilty of sex assaults

• Times Colonist
• 14 Dec 2024

A former masseur at a downtown Victoria massage and reflexology studio was found guilty Friday of sexually assaulting five clients.

 

Ajesh Jacob, who went by Sam while working at Big Feet on Fort Street, faced nine sexual assault charges involving nine women on whom he performed treatments over a nearly two-year period until March 17, 2021. 

 

The degree of sexual touching varied, with some women saying Jacob touched their breasts and others saying he touched their vaginal areas or inserted his fingers in their vaginas, Crown prosecutors said during the trial.

 

Jacob took the stand in his own defence, telling the court he didn’t touch anyone inappropriately during his work and he had no romantic interest in his clients.

 

Justice Catherine Murray said she had concerns about Jacob’s credibility and the reliability of his evidence because it was inconsistent with other evidence and his testimony changed at times.

 

However, Murray found Jacob not guilty on four counts because in some cases Jacob’s identity was not proven, and in others she had concerns that some of the women’s evidence was tainted or unconsciously contaminated by social-media posts or news reports they read about other women’s stories.

 

Many of the women testified at trial that they tried to diminish what happened to them instead of immediately accepting they had been sexually assaulted, including one woman who said she didn’t initially believe what Jacob did to her was a crime because he didn’t have sex with her.

 

Jacob’s lawyer challenged some of the women’s testimony during the trial, arguing the payment of a tip demonstrated their satisfaction with the treatment. Murray rejected that argument, saying she accepted the women’s testimony that they are conditioned to tip.

 

More: https://digitaltimes...281582361223679

 

[Mike K.]

An explosion heard downtown around 5 a.m. Friday was from a “flashbang” used during the arrest of a suspect, Victoria police say.

The Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team and Victoria Police officers responded to a report of a disturbance just before 1:45 a.m. in the 700-block of Pandora Avenue.

Police called to a disturbance at 1:45AM, but the bang was heard just after 5AM. How is that a short time later? What happened over the span of three hours and 20 minutes?

The flash was clearly in the 800-block of Johnson, most definitely not in the 700-block of Pandora. The video we released was taken from the 700-block of Yates, and the flash was seen a block further east and one block north, not directly opposite and down two blocks from the location of the camera.

[Victoria Watcher]

I think it was too loud for a flash-bang type thing too.

[Mike K.]

Indeed. I was sent other video I could not share for privacy reasons, and it was an intense explosion. Maybe there is an amplification effect in an urban environment?

[Blair M.]

There's something wrong with the official description, the timeline, and what we saw in the video (which essentially lit up the skyline).

 

This is a flash-bang, and this definitely isn't what we saw in the video:

https://www.youtube....h?v=muayLeA8pFc

[Matt R.]

Here’s our guy, white Jesus!

https://saanichpolic...wmO9nFnmuezbf1g

[Mike K.]

It’s great that our society keeps giving these guys chances.

BC, home of the 10th Chance for burglars, the random violence-prone and repeat general offenders.

[pontcanna]

Day parole extended for Nanaimo murderer

Dec 16, 2024 

NANAIMO — While maintaining he’s innocent, a man convicted of brutally stabbing his estranged wife to death in Nanaimo had his day parole privileges continued.

 

In a Sept. 10 Parole Board of Canada (PBC) ruling recently obtained by NanaimoNewsNOW, Kelvin Kingsbury Purdy had his day parole continued for six months, following a Correctional Service of Canada recommendation.

Kingsbury informed NanaimoNewsNOW he’s currently residing in Montreal.

A BC Supreme Court jury convicted Purdy of second-degree murder in 2005 in connection to the vicious Dec. 12, 2003 attack in which a defenseless Denise Purdy was stabbed to death during an early morning ambush.

Purdy was first granted day parole status in March 2024, where he was assigned to an Indigenous healing lodge. 

Of concern, the PBC stated Purdy continues to demonstrate “little remorse or victim empathy.”

Purdy has continually contended he’s the victim of corruption by police and the judicial system.

Blood from his ex-wife was found hours after the incident in a Ford Explorer driven by the offender, which Purdy contends was transferred from the crime scene to his vehicle by an RCMP investigator.

He wrote a memoir in jail which included a “DNA Scavenger Hunt List” with 199 people who could be responsible for murdering his ex-wife.

 

More: https://nanaimonewsn...naimo-murderer/

 

[pontcanna]

@ChiefManak

International visitor (from Africa) left her phone on a ⁦Transit bus. Her friends got text msgs from male trying to extort money for return of phone. ⁦

@vicpdcanada notified. Undercover officers posing as a buyer met with suspect & made arrest. Visitor became instant VicPD fan.

11:09 pm Dec 16

 

[Victoria Watcher]

 

@ChiefManak

International visitor (from Africa) left her phone on a ⁦Transit bus. Her friends got text msgs from male trying to extort money for return of phone. ⁦

@vicpdcanada notified. Undercover officers posing as a buyer met with suspect & made arrest. Visitor became instant VicPD fan.

11:09 pm Dec 16

 

 

Great that they got the phone back.  Not sure any charges can stick, in this case.  Guy just wanted a reward, not exactly complex extortion.

Edited by Victoria Watcher, 16 December 2024 - 11:58 PM.

[pontcanna]

B.C. youth support worker found guilty of sexual assault of teen in group home

Matthew Porcher, now 23, worked for a company that operates homes for troubled youth in Ministry of Children and Family Development care

Dec 16, 2024  

A former youth support worker for the Ministry of Children and Family Development has been found guilty of sexual assault and sexual touching after developing an inappropriate relationship with a 14-year-old boy in government care.

B.C. Supreme Court Judge Gareth Morley made the ruling in Victoria in late November and the reasons for judgment were posted online Friday.

Matthew Arlen Porcher, now 23, worked for the ministry from the fall of 2021 until April 2022 as a resident support worker with IDM Youth Services, a company that operates homes for troubled youth who can’t be accommodated in foster homes.

After a time, the company became concerned that Porcher had an “unprofessional relationship” with the youth and decided they should be separated for a time.

Porcher gave the youth a back massage, as he had done several times in the past. Once he thought the boy was asleep, he touched his genitals and buttocks. The boy “says that after enduring this out of fear for what he estimates to be 20 minutes, he pretended to wake up again.” Porcher tried to get him to go back to sleep, but he wouldn’t, and Porcher left.

Porcher, who testified in his own defence, denied the incident happened. But he admitted giving massages, sending the boy text messages from his personal phone, and meeting him at a local park on several occasions, all of which are against company policy.

Because of the boy’s age, the Crown did not have to prove a lack of consent, only that the touching happened.

Porcher, who was about 20 or 21 years old while working at the homes, wanted to be a police officer and had attended the Justice Institute after graduating from high school.

Porcher met the youth in his car twice at a park. Though the visits meant the youth had to break curfew, Porcher claimed the meetings were needed because the boy threatened suicide if he couldn’t see him.

Porcher tried to call the youth repeatedly that evening and asked to talk on FaceTime. He later told the youth he was finished work and asked him to come to a park to talk. The youth didn’t respond and Porcher sent increasingly pleading messages asking to meet.

The youth reached out to a former IDM employee asking what to do and was told to call police. He responded to one last text from Porcher with “Ok” so Porcher would stay at the park until police arrived.

Judge: “The accused clearly knew he was putting not only his job, but his future as a police officer, at risk by messaging the complainant and especially by meeting him in his car after curfew in a park. He hid his behaviour.”

Ultimately, the judge decided Porcher “is a practised liar and manipulator” and that he was motivated by sexual interest.

 

More: https://vancouversun...teen-group-home

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[pontcanna]

Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers

Dear Suspect

We have been asked by Saanich Police to share your photo with our amazing followers after you walked into an electronic store at Uptown and left with a brand-new $350 UE Boom speaker. Oh did we forget to mention that you didn’t pay for it either.

 

Hopefully you have been able to listen to your favorite tunes on your new speaker, but we’d like to make a song request if that’s ok. Can you look up the band Inner Circle and click play on the song ‘Bad Boys’. Just have a great listen to the song cause you are the ‘Bad Boy’ and once we get your name we will be sharing it with Police. We must ask the obvious question “Whatcha gonna do when they come for you”?

We will be seeing you soon.

File: #24-21745