Dean Pritchard

Couple charged with handing out cannabis candy insist they meant no harm

A Winnipeg couple charged with handing out bags of cannabis edibles to children on Halloween night insist they made a mistake and were not trying to harm trick-or-treaters.

Police arrested Sheldon Chochinov, 63, and Tammy Sigurdur, 53, a day after kids received bags of THC candy, which look similar to bags of children’s sweets, in south Tuxedo.

Chochinov and Sigurdur have each been charged with 13 counts of distributing cannabis to a young person and 13 counts of distributing cannabis knowing it is illegal.

Couple accused of distributing cannabis had run out of Halloween candy: search warrants

A Winnipeg couple say they ran out of candy to hand out on Halloween night when it is alleged they topped up their treat bowl with strictly adult cannabis-laced confections.

Man pleads guilty in near-fatal 2021 knife attack aboard city bus

Winnipeg Transit passengers screamed in horror and ran for the exit after Peter Radulescu pulled out a knife and calmly stabbed an elderly woman seated in front of him eight times in the neck, chest and back, a court has heard.

Radulescu, 44, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of attempted murder for the Jan. 12, 2021, attack.

Guilty pleas for attempted murder are rare, as it is considered among the most difficult criminal offences to prove.

Radulescu will return to court Feb. 6, when Crown and defence lawyers are expected to jointly recommend King’s Bench Justice Jeffrey Harris sentence Radulescu to 13 years in prison.

Crown stays sex assault charges in first of three trials for Ste. Anne doctor

A woman who claims she was sexually assaulted by her doctor more than a decade ago says she has lost faith in the justice system after charges involving six other alleged victims were stayed in court.

Adult sentence for Canada Day 2020 murder

A Winnipeg teen has been sentenced as an adult to life in prison for a Canada Day shooting spree that left a 27-year-old mother of four dead and three others injured.

Church plea bargain nets $30K fine for breaking pandemic gathering orders

A Manitoba church that repeatedly flouted provincially imposed gathering limits at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic has been fined $30,000.

Two years house arrest for fake immigration consultant

A Winnipeg man who falsified bank records and other documents to help would-be immigrants secure entry to Canada has been sentenced to two years house arrest.

Son who murdered mother to serve youth sentence

A Winnipeg man who bludgeoned his mother to death in her bed when he was 16 will not serve a life sentence in prison, a judge has ruled.

“There is no doubt the offence was extremely violent and brutal,” King’s Bench Justice Anne Turner said Tuesday, but prosecutors did not satisfy her that the circumstances of the case demanded the now-20-year-old be sentenced as an adult for the crime.

The man stood trial for first-degree murder in the March 2019 slaying, but was convicted by a jury in June 2022 of the lesser offence of second-degree murder.

Turner sentenced him to the maximum youth sentence of seven years custody, three years of which are to be served under conditional supervision in the community.

Crown drops fraud charge against disgraced former funeral director

A former Winnipeg funeral director accused of defrauding dozens of grieving families is no longer facing criminal prosecution.

Man charged with murders in Christmas Day apartment fire has previous arson convictions

A Winnipeg man accused of killing two people and injuring four others in a deliberately set fire at a downtown apartment block on Christmas Day has past arson convictions, court records show.