March 09, 2021 - 4:48 PM A Kamloops driver being investigated for impaired driving took out their frustration on a police cruiser and spat at the investigating officer, according to Mounties. The altercation started March 6, around 11:50 p.m., when an officer with the RCMP’s Central Interior Traffic Services was conducting an impaired driving investigation on Willow and Popular streets in Kamloops. When the vehicle’s passengers got out (they) began hitting the police cruiser’s windows and yelling profanities, RCMP said in a press release sent out by Const. Crystal Evelyn. As backup arrived and the passengers were arrested, the vehicle’s driver allegedly became destructive, kicking the police vehicle’s windows and spitting at officers.
At 12:16 p.m., officers found a man with non-life threatening cuts on his body. He was taken to hospital for treatment. A police tracking dog team could not find the suspect, who is described only as a white man in black clothing. Evelyn said the victim was unco-operative when speaking with police.
Glass-smash break and enters reported at two businesses A retail store and auto shop were hit by smash-and-grab thieves early Sunday morning. At 2:48 a.m., officers from the Kamloops RCMP rural detachment responded to a report of a break-and-enter on the Yellowhead Highway. Surveillance video showed two men, wearing dark clothing with their hoods up and faces covered, approach a building from the north. One of the men approached the business, kicked in the glass door, stole a donation box, then headed southbound on foot.
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March 03, 2021 - 8:57 AM A suspicious vehicle reported in Kamloops led to an arrest and charges for a man ultimately found in Barriere. Kamloops RCMP received a report Feb. 26, around 6 p.m., of a suspicious vehicle on Kootenay Way. Frontline officers from Kamloops’s rural detachment located the car on Hwy 5 and attempted to stop it unsuccessfully. A police officer with the RCMP’s Central Interior Traffic Services later observed the vehicle at a gas station in Barriere, and with the assistance of a Barriere RCMP frontline officer, the vehicle’s driver was detained, then arrested, Const. Crystal Evelyn said in a press release.
The driver of a Ford Escape killed in a collision with a pickup truck near Chase Thursday morning has been identified.
Acting regional coroner Chico Newell said Friday the 38-year-old woman was Pamela Xanphe Jones of Kamloops. She was alone in the vehicle.
Jones was driving her 2006 Escape 11 kilometres east of Chase on the Trans-Canada Highway when she apparently lost control and slid into the westbound lane.
There, a 2002 Ford Explorer pickup truck was being driven by an 80-year-old man from Chase. He was taken to Royal Inland Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries after his truck struck Jones s Escape just behind the driver s door.