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Crime & Public Safety

2020

Stolen lobster boat found and returned

A Grand Manan man has been charged in the theft of a lobster boat from the island on May 25. Grampa's Legacy, a 45 foot lobster boat belonging to Special K Fisheries, was taken from the North Head wharf shortly after midnight and recovered in Maine later that day.

2020

Questions still remain after area shootings

Schools went in lockdown mode throughout Machias on February 3 as law enforcement responded to reports of multiple shootings in Jonesboro and Machias.

2020

Court hears 911 call made before killing in St. Stephen case

A 911 emergency operator listened while Crystal Ann Tracey loudly told her ex-partner Irving John Hastey, "Go!" on December 24, 2018, according to facts presented in Saint John Court of Queen's Bench on January 22 at Hastey's sentencing hearing on a charge of manslaughter.

2019

Disappearance now considered homicide

The RCMP now suspect that a teenager missing from St. Stephen since 2017 died as a result of homicide.

2019

Little Ridge man charged with killing woman in St. Stephen

Irving John Hastey, 55, of Little Ridge returns to Saint John Provincial Court on January 14 charged with second-degree murder and breaching an undertaking. The RCMP brought him to court in custody on December 27, charged with the death of Crystal Ann Tracey...

2018

Four more deputies sought to combat drug-related crime

Washington County is seeing a game-changing shift in drug-related crimes that are being driven by a change in drug dealer make-up.

2018

County looking for game plan to fight drug-related crimes

The Washington County Sheriff's Office along with other law enforcement agencies has been asked by the county commissioners to create a "game plan" for effectively combating the escalating climate of drug-related crimes. Despite being rescheduled because...