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Vernon Vipers head coach Jason Williamson and personal trainer Rhonda Catt of Excel Fitness take part in the awareness and fundraising campaign for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) by accepting the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. View the video on The Morning Star Facebook page.
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Four suspects arrested Tuesday in a shots fired incident at Polson Park have been released from custody without charges being laid. Police received a number of calls from witnesses at around 8 a.m. Tuesday about shots being fired in Polson Park. A 23-year-old Vernon man was arrested near the park Tuesday morning while three other suspects – two men, one from Vernon, the other from Surrey, and a 28-yearold Toronto woman – were arrested shortly before noon Tuesday without
incident in a car in Kelowna. “Members of the serious crimes unit are continuing to interview witnesses, and collect evidence in relation to this case,” said Vernon RCMP spokesperson Gord Molendyk. “The potential for charges being laid in the future against these individuals, or any others involved in this incident, will be reassessed in the days to come as they advance this investigation.” Police said Tuesday that the four individuals were known to each other. Nobody was injured in the incident.
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RCMP members search for clues after reports of shots fired in Polson Park Tuesday. Four people arrested in connection with the incident have been released without charges being laid.
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Revelstoke RCMP arrested a Vernon woman after a five-hour pursuit that included a police officer getting peppered by bear spray early Wednesday morning. RCMP say the incident began at around 3 a.m when they got a call about a suspicious female who had parked her vehicle in someone’s driveway and was asking for gas or money. Police attended but when they approached the woman she fled in a blue Toyota Tacoma pickup. The vehicle was later seen on the TransCanada Highway and a traffic stop was attempted by police. The woman refused to comply with the stop and at some point the police officer was hit with bear spray. The woman then fled the scene but her truck was soon found only one kilometre further east on the highway. The truck had been reported stolen from a home in Sorrento sometime overnight and was related to another motor vehicle theft in Vernon. An RCMP police dog was called in from Vernon and by 8 a.m. the woman was found and arrested. The 31-year-old woman is facing charges of obstructing a police officer, resisting arrest, assaulting a police officer, possession of stolen property worth more than $5,000, trespassing and breaching a probation order.
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