A 37-year-old woman pleaded guilty to shooting at an Onion Lake RCMP officer during a high-speed chase on New Year’s Day. Glynnis Chief appeared in Lloydminster Provincial Court by CCTV from Pine. . .
A 37-year-old woman pleaded guilty to shooting at an Onion Lake RCMP officer during a high-speed chase on New Year’s Day. Glynnis Chief appeared in Lloydminster Provincial Court by CCTV from Pine. . .
North Battleford Crown Prosecutor Oryn Holm and defence lawyer Don Smith entered a joint submission to the court for a nine-month conditional sentence. Charges of discharging a firearm with intent to endanger life and assault of a police officer with a weapon were withdrawn. McAlpine and four others were charged after an incident on Onion Lake Cree Nation on Jan. 1, 2021. Holm told the court there was no evidence McAlpine in any way encouraged the flight from the police or shooting at the police, and she was in the vehicle when the incident happened but not a willing participant. He said her culpability comes from the knowledge that there were firearms in the vehicle.
“I was convinced that day it was only a matter of time until the accused’s SUV or bullets killed someone,” said RCMP Const. Jacob Isaac who was involved in the pursuit on Onion Lake Cree Nation Jan. 1, 2021. “This was a feeling very few will experience and was a heavy burden on all of us to accept that we had to potentially die trying to stop this out-of-control threat to society. “I can remember hearing the updates on the radio as we all pursued and I think to myself ‘how do we stop this before someone dies?’ As various scenarios ran through my head on how to stop them, very few had the likelihood of coming out uninjured or (not) killed,” said Const. Isaac. “I’m confident my co-workers had the same gut wrenching thoughts.”
“I just have to meet with (McAlpine) to discuss it,” said Smith, who requested a one-month adjournment. North Battleford Judge Daniel O’Hanlon, who was presiding over Lloydminster Provincial Court, granted the adjournment. McAlpine, along with Glynnis Larene Chief, 37, Twaine Derek Buffalo-Naistus, 39, and Tyler Ryan Wolfe, 35, all from Onion Lake, along with Danny Lee Weeseekase, 38, from Makwa Sahgaiehcan First nation, were arrested on Onion Lake Cree Nation Jan. 1, 2021. RCMP say they were pursuing a black SUV on Onion Lake Cree Nation when a firearm came out of one of the SUV’s windows and multiple shots were fired at police. No one was injured.