True Crime
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How Not to Disappear into the Wild – Part five.
Link to Part one. Armed with the information from the notes and the storage receipts we contacted our Customs and Excise section in Calgary and they executed search warrants on the storage containers. Michael J. had been a busy man. Tucked away in the containers were another Bronco, a ’66 Corvette, more firearms, more boats
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How Not to Disappear into the Wild – Part four.
Link to Part one. One of the first things I did when we got back to the office, after letting him talk to legal aid (his lawyer re-iterated that he did not want me to go through the truck.. hmmm) was to search the duffle bag. It didn’t take me long to figure out why
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How Not to Disappear into the Wild – Part three.
Link to part one. After he left I continued to try and get some background information on Michael J. and not knowing where else to look I again called the Sheriff in Incline Village. “Am I ever glad you called back.” He said. “I never wrote down your number. That warrant is for $20,000.00 for
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How Not to Disappear into the Wild – Part two.
Link to Part one. I headed back to the office and, as we now knew where he was staying, Mark and Kevin headed to the Friendship Centre to get the numbers from the BC plate on the boat. I’d already run him on the computer and nothing had come up, so I needed to look
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How Not to Disappear into the Wild – Part one.
La Ronge in April is a great spot. Spring is giving strong hints that it is coming, the promise of summer is in the air. It is not, however, a great time for boating. I was on days off when I first saw it. A new white Ford Bronco pulling a 22 foot Lund Tyee
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Incident at Mickey’s Camp – Post Script
Link to page one. The incident resulted in some 38 or 39 (I can’t remember exactly) criminal charges against Jonny, a seventeen year old, ranging from attempted murder, to point firearm, to break and enter & others. He ended up pleading out to eleven charges in a plea bargain, he was sentenced to two years
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Incident at Mickey’s Camp – Conclusion
Link to Page one No doubt puzzled why no one was chasing him (which wasn’t entirely true, two ER Team members were out in a boat looking for him, but it’s a big lake), Jonny motored back to Mickey’s camp. As he pulled up to the dock he could hear noises in the bush and
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Incident at Mickey’s Camp – Part six
Link to Part one. Mickey McCann was eighty years old at the time. He was the first owner of Mickey’s Camp and now his son ran it. He still lived at McLennon Lake, in a cabin a couple of kilometres from the landing. He was about to meet our Jonny. Jonny, after leaving shore in
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Incident at Mickey’s Camp – Part five
Link to Part one While I waited at the cabin, two members from Southend Detachment headed south while the rest of our members headed north. Half of the ER Team continued on up the road while the other half stopped to clear the cabin. While I waited for them to arrive (they take a very
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Incident at Mickey’s Camp – Part 4
Link to Part one The couple, a husband and wife, had been out boating that afternoon when they remembered the rhubarb from the cabin, and decided to stop in and pick some. The cabin was up a hill from the lake, and had been heavily boarded up, with planks and iron bars. As they walked