Levi Landry

1 day ago | infotel.ca | Levi Landry

An investigator has found a Kamloops city councillor acted without integrity as he continually misled the mayor about a secret recording until he had no way out. Councillor Bill Sarai breached council's code of conduct and his oath of office with a "pattern of misdirection" meant to conceal that he made and kept the recording, according to a recently published report. "This conduct lacked the integrity, respect and leadership that Coun.

1 day ago | infotel.ca | Levi Landry

A man accused in a 2020 stabbing spree stowed away two knives before he returned to the scene. A Kamloops jury was shown video footage Thursday of the accused, Michael Wayne Palmer, as he was taken from the police station to McArthur Island Park. He hid the knives near the riverbank and led police there on a cloudy March day in 2020. Homicide investigator Cpl. Dave Marshall took Palmer to the park in a police vehicle with Palmer.

2 days ago | infotel.ca | Levi Landry

Kamloops Mayor Reid Hamer-Jackson filed the three most recent council code of conduct complaints, and all three have been dismissed. He said he was recently contacted by the investigator contracted for the job, who told him all three complaints would be tossed. "I just got this and I'm not supposed to say nothing about it, but I'm saying lots about it," the mayor said. Hamer-Jackson filed three complaints against different councillors in April.

2 days ago | infotel.ca | Levi Landry

Legislative staff in Victoria incorrectly applied in-house rules when a Kamloops woman and her baby were ousted from the gallery last week. They were watching question period among BC MLAs and the mother was bottle feeding her baby when staff said they had to leave, apparently violating the no food or drink rule.

3 days ago | infotel.ca | Levi Landry

A Kamloops man accused of stabbing four people in 2020 told police when he was being arrested that he was trying to protect his fiancé. That's according to audio evidence presented to a Kamloops jury in which Michael Wayne Palmer is heard candidly claiming to police he was trying to save his fiancé or himself that night and about his frustrations with crime at his apartment. Crown prosecutor Laura Drake, during her opening statement to the jury, described it as a strange, rambling account.