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Elliott found guilty in brutal hammer attack

A Chilliwack man was convicted Friday of aggravated assault in a brutal beating that left his victim with a fractured skull.


 

Father, daughter to be sentenced

A Cheam First Nations member and his daughter was to be sentenced this week for illegally fishing in a case that dates all the way back to 2005.


 

Judge not happy with shoddy police work

Citing a flawed police investigation, a Chilliwack judge has thrown out much of the Crown's evidence against a man charged with hitting a convenience store employee while driving drunk.


 
 

Spending Christmas in custody

A Seabird Island man acquitted of sexual assault charges Monday morning won't be home for Christmas.


 

BMO robber Keenan staying in jail

A 26-year-old man will spend another 11 months behind bars after pleading guilty to robbery and break-and-enter charges.


 

Like a 50 Cent movie

A Chilliwack man who "conscripted" a 17year-old boy to serve as his driver while he engaged in "nefarious activity" involving a loaded handgun and a high-speed chase will spend nearly three more years in jail.


 

More time behind bars for Keenan

A 26-year-old man will spend another 11 months behind bars after pleading guilty to robbery and break-and-enter charges.


 

Addiction fuels crime spree

Joshua Austin Marlowe had become a "human lemming" when he held up four Chilliwack businesses with a fake gun earlier this year, Judge Russell Mackay told the 21-year-old Yarrow man at his sentencing hearing Monday.


 

Agassiz grow-op trial results in conviction and acquittal

Citing the unreliable nature of eyewitness testimony, a Provincial Court judge convicted only one of two men charged in connection with an Agassiz marijuana grow operation busted in 2010.


 

Van Geel changes life, gets second chance

With his voice tight with emotion and his parents looking on, 27-year-old Bradley Van Geel stood before a judge Thursday and apologized for a February crime spree that ended with him urging police to shoot him.


 

'Brutal attack' nets time served

One of three people charged in connection to what police described as a "brutal attack" on a woman last year pleaded guilty to assault and uttering threats Thursday in provincial court.