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**** HRP Media Release Police Investigate Robbery​ Halifax Regional Police are investigating a robbery that occurred this morning in Halifax.​ At 9:40 a.m. on September 26th, ​ 2020, officers responded to a report of a robbery at the Petro Canada Service Station located at 7015 Bayers Road, Halifax. A lone male suspect entered the Service...

**** HRP Media Release Police request assistance in locating man with arrest warrant Update;​ ​ Police Arrest Man With Arrest Warrant ​ Gregory Thomas Weeks was arrested tonight at 9:32 p.m. by members of the Halifax Regional Police with the assistance of members of the​ Royal Canadian Mounted Police​ from the Lower Sackville and Windsor...

**** CAF Media Release Canada receives its first new fixed-wing search and rescue CC-295 aircraft The Government of Canada is equipping the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) with the modern and effective aircraft it needs to continue its critical life-saving search and rescue missions across Canada’s vast and challenging territory. ​ The RCAF marked the...

**** CBSA  Media Release CBSA charges man with 23 offences following search in Porters Lake, Nova Scotia​ ​ Today, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced that a Porters Lake man has been charged with weapons-related offences following the completion of a smuggling investigation. In August 2019, border services officers at mail centres in Toronto...

**** NS SPCA Media Release Halifax Woman Sentenced for Animal Cruelty Gloria Adele Martell, 72, of Halifax, was sentenced on September 23, 2020. Martell pled guilty to owning and willfully permitting unnecessary pain, suffering or injury to dogs contrary to section 445.1 (1)(a) and having custody or control of domestic dogs, abandoning them in distress...

**** HRP Media Release Halifax Regional Police statement on a recent incident involving an assault ​ A number of people have commented on police response and follow up to an incident that took place on September 18.​ ​  At approximately 3:10 am, Halifax Regional Police responded to a report of an assault in progress at a...

**** HRP Media Release Halifax Regional Police​ were called to​ Chanoey’s Pasta at 41 Portland Street, Dartmouth at approximately​ 6:40 A.M.​ on September 24th after a passer-by noticed damage to the door and inside the business. Police arrived and​ discovered that the business had been broken into and damage done inside. The investigation is ongoing...

**** RCMP Media Release Police investigate arson The RCMP/HRP integrated General Investigation Section is investigating an arson that occurred on September 22 in Lower Sackville. At approximately 9:50 p.m. Halifax District RCMP were called to a structure fire on Metropolitan Ave. in Lower Sackville. Upon arrival, the structure was fully engulfed and Halifax Regional Emergency...

**** HRP Media Release (x2) Police Investigate Attempted Robbery – Dartmouth​ At 9:45 p.m., 23 September, Halifax Regional Police responded to a report of an attempted robbery that occurred in the 0-100 block of Kennedy Drive Dartmouth.​ The victim met a buyer for his vehicle.​ However, while inspecting the vehicle the buyer produced a knife and attempted...

**** HRP Media Release Police request public assistance identifying suspect in church break and enter ​Video: Halifax Regional Police is requesting the public’s assistance in identifying two suspects in relation to a break and enter into a church that occurred last week in Dartmouth. ​ On September 18, police received a report that a church...