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[pontcanna]

Wanted: Morgan Elizabeth Blanch

B.C., Integrated Municipal Provincial Auto Crime Team (IMPACT), Wanted Warrant

2024-04-12 

April is Auto Crime Enforcement Month and IMPACT is requesting the public’s assistance to locate 38-year-old Morgan Elizabeth Blanch.

Morgan Elizabeth Blanch is wanted by Nanaimo RCMP and West Shore RCMP on [14 unendorsed warrants] for the following:

Possess a weapon for dangerous purpose
Assault
Possession of stolen property
Theft Under $5000
Break and Enter
Theft of Motor Vehicle
Fraud

Morgan Elizabeth Blanch is described as:

 

Caucasian female
5’8 (173 cm)
141 lb (64 kg)
Brown hair
Brown eyes

Morgan Elizabeth Blanch is bound by property crime related conditions and wanted on 14 warrants in relation the above noted police files.

If you have any information about Morgan Elizabeth Blanch’s whereabouts, please contact IMPACT or your local police department. If you wish to remain anonymous, contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS).

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BC RCMP Communications

[Victoria Watcher]

The victim of a fatal stabbing Tuesday night on Douglas Street near Burnside Road has been identified as Oliver Nicholson.

 

A Cool Aid spokesperson confirmed Nicholson was the man killed in a stabbing just before midnight Tuesday in the 2900 block of Douglas Street outside Palagio Pizza. Nicholson lived in Cool Aid’s Crosstown housing facility at Douglas and Burnside, formerly the Tally Ho Motel.

 

On Friday, Cool Aid staff were not able to share more about Nicholson.

 

In April 2022, Nicholson was the victim of a vicious attack inside a suite in the housing facility. Nicholson was addicted to methamphetamine and owed his dealer $190 for drugs he purchased for his girlfriend at the time, according to an October 2023 B.C. Supreme Court judgment that found one of the men involved guilty of extortion, unlawful confinement, assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon.

 

Several people, including his dealer, his former girlfriend and her new boyfriend, participated in the attack, confining Nicholson in a room where they duct-taped him to a chair and beat him, lighting his shoulder on fire and branding him with a hot coin, according to the judgment.

 

 

 

 

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[pontcanna]

Have You Seen Wanted Person Christian Richardson? 

 

Date: Friday, April 12, 2024 

File: #23-12395 

 

 

    Wanted Person Christian Richardson Arrested

 

Date: Monday, April 15, 2024  

File: 23-12395 

 

Victoria, BC – VicPD officers located and arrested wanted person Christian Richardson last night. Richardson was wanted for Fraud Over $5,000 and a VicPD Wanted Person Alert was issued on April 12. 

[pontcanna]

Three sections of Douglas Street closed due to another stabbing

Monday, April 15th, 2024



While details remain sparse, VicPD have confirmed another stabbing investigation is underway near the intersection of Douglas and Yates Street in downtown Victoria.

Footage from the scene shows emergency responders attending to an individual, who is later transported away in an ambulance.

The incident occurred just before 10:30 a.m. Monday morning. Photos sent to Victoria Buzz also show two other sections of Douglas Street closed, including outside of Shoppers Drug Mart.

More: https://www.victoria...other-stabbing/

[Nparker]

Nothing to see here, right Ms. Alto?

[pontcanna]

Officers Respond To Daytime Stabbing Downtown

 

Date: Monday, April 15, 2024 

File: #24-12873 

 

Victoria, BC – On Monday, April 15, just before 10:30 a.m. VicPD Traffic officers were conducting proactive patrols in the downtown core when they were flagged down to respond to a stabbing in the 600-block of Yates Street. 

 

Officers quickly assessed that a male victim had been stabbed. They provided first-aid, and the man was transported to hospital with serious but non-life-threatening injuries. Pedestrian foot traffic was disrupted in the area while three scenes were sectioned off and documented, and evidence was collected by the Forensic Investigative Services section. There were no other victims, and there have been no arrests.  

 

This file is in the early stages of investigation, and officers are asking anyone who witnessed the event today, or anyone who may have CCTV footage of the event, to call the EComm Report Desk at (250)-995-7654 extension 1. To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477. 

 

This is the seventh stabbing incident since March 1 in Victoria, with two incidents as suspected homicides. However, these are each considered isolated incidents, and there is no reason to believe they are connected at this time.  

 

Although the number and close frequency of recent stabbing events is concerning, it is not significantly higher than most other years, as indicated in the chart below, which details reports of all Assaults Involving a Knife during each Quarter over the past five years. It’s important to note that these numbers do not specifically indicate stabbings, but all assaults that involve a knife.  

 

 

VicPD officers have been conducting more patrols in the downtown core in recent months, including foot patrols, and will continue this proactive work to ensure that Victoria continues to be a safe community. Each day, tens of thousands of people safely live, work, play and visit in Victoria, and our citizens and visitors should continue to feel safe in going about their day-to-day lives. 

 

As this file remains under investigation, further details cannot be shared at this time.  

 

 

[Mike K.]

So that’s a stabbing roughly every 4 days.

I was just remarking on how uncomfortable the Douglas and Yates area is. I absolutely, most definitely do not feel safe in that area. There is nothing about that area to make me feel safe. Until VicPD stations police on street corners like American cities do there will be no feeling of safety in that area, based on what is going on there currently. The situation is totally untenable.