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CONST. STEVE HOLMES holds a Sten gun offered
up by a Kelowna resident during the June gun amnesty that the RCMP conducted.
Amnesty nets cops weapons
Jennifer Smith
STAFF REPORTER
A Sten gun is a semi-automatic, nine-millimetre sub-machine gun produced during the Second World War and capable of firing 600 to 700 rounds per minute. Manufactured in Britain and Belgium— though there was a Canadian weapons factory that produced one variation as well—it’s one of the weapons RCMP see a lot of during the month of June when residents of Kelowna are encouraged to call the RCMP to have unwanted weapons retrieved, no matter how obscure, with a total amnesty. “I know there’s still a lot of them out there,” said RCMP spokesman Const. Steve Holmes when asked if the well had started to run dry as yet, whether residents have stopped handing over guns as often. Now several years
into this practice, Holmes says the RCMP still receive a good deal of calls for everything from muskets made in the 1800s to brand new weapons owners would prefer not to keep around the house. In Kelowna, they managed to pick up 41 long guns, two air guns and 14 hand guns this time around. By and large, all of the weapons are destroyed; although, some of the more rare antiques will be sent on to the lab and may be saved for historical reference. Holmes says the RCMP will pick up a weapon at any time, yearround, and encourage residents who may still wish to rid themselves of an unwanted gun, bow or knife to contact police and have it retrieved. The police do not want residents walking into the detachment with weapons, particularly loaded ones, as it may be dangerous for everyone involved.
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INVESTIGATORS were still on scene Monday at the Mill Creek site where a man’s body was found Sunday. Although there was no word whether it was a murder, police are calling the death “suspicious.”
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Police probing latest ‘suspicious’ death Jennifer Smith STAFF REPORTER
For the second time in as many months, the Kelowna RCMP are remaining tight-lipped about a suspicious death—potentially Kelowna’s second murder of the year. Sunday afternoon, RCMP officers were called to a wooded area along Mill Creek, in the
area of Harvey and Sutherland Avenues, for what appeared to be a body found in the small waterway. As of Monday morning, that was all the police would confirm. “I would really just be speculating,” said Const. Steve Holmes, when asked about the disturbing discovery during the semi-regular police press conference called to brief
media, Monday morning. Bystanders in the area Sunday afternoon indicated the body was that of a man who was likely a homeless person. It was found by another individual out for a walk. Some said the man had gone into the wooded creek area with two other homeless people and never came out, but
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it has not been confirmed whether the deceased was alone at the time of his death. The first murder in the city of the year took place in June on the opposite end of town. A 27-year-old mother of two daughters was found dead in her Glenmore home shortly after midnight. Police have released
a sketch of an individual seen in the area, who is listed as someone investigators want to speak with, but otherwise, little information has come forth about her death, including the cause. It took four days for RCMP to confirm that case was a murder. Meanwhile, Saturday’s Mill Creek death is still simply being listed as suspicious.
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