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Vol. 63, Issue 156
Bountiful polygamy charges approved TRE VOR CR AWLEY Daily Townsman
A special prosecutor with the Criminal Justice Branch approved criminal charges against four individuals associated with Bountiful on Wednesday. Peter Wilson approved the charges, which allege polygamy and the unlawful removal of children under the age of 16 years from Canada with the intention that an act committed outside Canada would be an offence against section 151 (sexual interference) or 152 (invitation to sexual touching) of the Criminal Code. Winston Blackmore and James Oler both face charges of polygamy, while Oler also faces a charge for the alleged unlawful removal of a child from Canada. Additionally, Brandon Blackmore
and Emily Crossfield each face a charge for alleged unlawful removal of a child from Canada. The charges were sworn in Cranbrook while first appearance is anticipated to be on Oct. 9th, 2014, in Creston. The new charges come on the revelation of new evidence after the RCMP received a large volume of documentation seized by U.S. authorities after investigations into members of the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints in Arizona, Texas and Utah. Wilson received two RCMP reports to Crown Counsel in July 2013 and and January 2014, with some of the material based on evidence that had been considered in earlier charges against Blackmore and Oler.
See CHARGES, Page 4
In 1948, the Kimberley tailing dam was breached
News coverage may not have been as dramatic as for this year’s Mt. Polley Mine incident, but C. Kirvin and S. Macri were caught in the torrent for a wild ride. BARRY COULTER, C AROLYN GR ANT, AND DAVE HUMPHREY
The most active item in the provincial news cycle these days is the breach of the tailings pond at the the Mount Polley gold and copper mine, near Likely, B.C. On August 4, 2014, a section of the gravel and earth dam collapsed, and millions of cubic metres of water and finely ground up rock containing potentially toxic metals spewed into Hazeltine Creek, Polley Lake and Quesnel Lake. Data is still coming in as to the environmental effects, and any reper-
cussions politically or for the mining industry are yet to be determined Sixty-six years ago, a remarkably similar event to place in Kimberley, with the breach of the tailing pond for the Sullivan Mine, located above Marysville. “The C.M.&S. Co. Sullivan Mine has been forced to curtail its operations due to a break in the wall of the tailing pond at the ore mill,” the Cranbrook Courier reported on March 4, 1948.
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See 1948, Page 4
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ON COLDEN’S POND: Colden Thompson, 17, will represent Cranbrook at the 2014 Canadian National Wakeboard Championships starting today at Bush’s Watersports Park in Bala, Ont. Read the full story on page 8 (Photo submitted)