Impaired Driving Causing Death

There was a fatal vehicle-pedestrian accident on the Red Earth Cree Nation early Sunday morning.

RCMP officers located an injured woman around 3am. She was later pronounced dead by EMS at the scene. She has been identified as a 36-year-old woman from the Red Earth Cree Nation, about three-and-a-hours north of Saskatoon.

The vehicle involved in the collision left the scene. RCMP arrested a suspect at a home on the Red Earth Cree Nation about four hours later.

34-year-old Miller Nawankayas of the Red Earth Cree Nation is charged with one count of operating a vehicle while impaired causing death and failing to stop at an accident involving death. He will appear in Melfort Provincial Court on Thursday.

Single Vehicle Rollover

A 27-year-old man from Saskatoon died in a single vehicle rollover about half an hour north of Prince Albert Saturday evening.

RCMP say the accident happened on the Northside grid. The man—who was driving the vehicle—was declared dead on the scene by paramedics.
An adult male passenger was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

RCMP continue to investigate with the assistance of a Saskatchewan RCMP collision constructionist.

Unexploded Device

RCMP received a report of a suspicious package behind a business on 100th Street in Tisdale late Saturday afternoon.

Nearby buildings were evacuated, and traffic was rerouted from the area.

The provincial RCMP Explosives Disposal Unit was called in to disable the device. The package contained a small home explosive/incendiary device. The nearby area was checked to ensure there were no other risks to the public. No one was hurt.

The RCMP is asking anyone with information to contact the Tisdale detachment or the Provincial Crime Stoppers line.

Staged Accident

Someone trying to help another in distress ended up being assaulted and almost had their vehicle stolen.   Pierceland RCMP were told a vehicle was on Highway 21 on Mudie Lake First Nation when the driver came across a black compact SUV stopped on the road and a male laying on the ground nearby.

Police were told that as the driver got out of their vehicle, the male got up and threatened the motorist with a machete and demanded the keys to the vehicle.
Another male assaulted the driver and was robbed of a sum of cash but was able to get back into their vehicle, drive away and call the police.  The two suspects were last seen heading north on Highway 21 toward Pierceland.

One was described as wearing jeans and a black hoodie. The other is about 5’11” with a thin build and dark-coloured eyes, who was also wearing a black hoodie, and had a black neck warmer pulled up over his mouth and nose.

Police advise if you come across what you think could be a staged accident, do not exit your vehicle. Turn around and call police. Anyone with information or sightings of the two suspects and the black compact SUV are asked to contact the Pierceland RCMP.

Police Chase and RCMP Cruisers No Longer Drivable

Sunday morning two police vehicles no longer drivable after a high-speed chase through multiple communities. Just before 9:30 a.m. October 30, an RCMP officer noticed an occupied stolen car at a business and tried to stop the car, but it fled, striking and disabling the police vehicle.

A second RCMP officer located the vehicle on Highway and tried to stop it, but police say the vehicle was forced off the road by the suspect car, which then continued, entering the eastbound lanes of Highway 1 near Gull lake, driving in the wrong direction at extremely high speeds.  Officers from Swift Current Rural, Maple Creek and Saskatchewan RCMP’s Police Dog Services joined the search.

RCMP report the car entered Maple Creek then back to Highway 1 where a spike belt was set up.  The car drove over it but continued speeding with two deflated tires.  Officers then manoeuvered the car off the road and arrested two people inside.  No one was injured, but a number of police vehicles were damaged and two are no longer drivable.

Twenty-four-year-old Brandon Condon-White and 29-year-old Kendell Marie Hardt of Prince Edward Island are facing charges that include two counts of assaulting a police officer with a weapon, flight from police, dangerous driving, and possession of property obtained by crime.