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Trail and Greater District
2025-02-18 10:30 PST
On Friday, February 14, 2025, a frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officer received a report of a fraud after a local man provided bank information to a person on social media while in the Trail and Greater District.
The man listed an item for sale on a social media website. A potential buyer offered to buy the item. The buyer sent an email that appeared to be from a bank to pay for the item. The email was a ruse that tricked the man into entering his banking information after clicking a link in the email. The man later discovered that $2798 had been withdrawn from his bank account.
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This money is not recoverable nor is the man covered by his financial institution after he disclosed personal banking information to the scammer.
Scammers will create emails that look like they come from a legitimate business. Never click on the links and enter any personal banking information to receive payment. This is almost always a scam. Electronic money transfers from sales on social media market places do not require you to give the buyer any personal banking information. If you prefer to deal in person and in cash to help avoid online scams, you can use the Trail and Greater District Detachment front parking lot to meet prospective buyers, says Sgt. Wicentowich.
Scammers will create emails that look like they come from a legitimate business. Never click on the links and enter any personal banking information to receive payment. This is almost always a scam. Electronic money transfers from sales on social media market places do not require you to give the buyer any personal banking information. If you prefer to deal in person and in cash to help avoid online scams, you can use the Trail and Greater District Detachment front parking lot to meet prospective buyers,
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On Valentine’s Day, Friday, February 14, 2025, frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officers responded to a report of a 47-year-old Alberta man who had cut his hair with scissors in the restroom and refused to pay for his meal before he fled from a business located in the 1200 block of Bay Avenue, in Trail, BC.
The man sat down and ate a meal in the restaurant before retiring to the bathroom for a quick do-it-yourself hair cut. The staff discovered his impromptu barber shop and asked the man to refrain from cutting his hair in the public restroom, on behalf of other guests.
The man allegedly gestured threateningly with the scissors toward the staff before he fled the restaurant. Police were contacted about the incident. The man was described as wearing a black fedora, brown trench coat, and carrying a sleeping bag and back pack, with a fresh hair cut.
Officers conducted patrols and located the man matching the description provided walking along Third Avenue near McQuarrie Street. The officers arrested the man who initially declined to cooperative with verbal direction provided. The officers feared that the man may still be armed with scissors. After a short, tense stand-off, an officer used his verbal de-escalation techniques to talk the man into cooperation. The man was arrested after a brief struggle.
A police search incident to the arrest located a knife on his person. A search on a police computer system discovered that the man was prohibited from possessing weapons and had outstanding warrants for his arrest from Alberta.
Officers took the man into custody and lodged him into the cell block at the Trail Detachment. The man was taken before a judge and remanded into custody.
The 47-year-old Alberta man will remain in custody until he is transported to Alberta to face his outstanding criminal charges.
Love definitely was not in the h-air for this man during Valentine’s Dine-and Dash. Police were easily able to identify him with his new hair cut and being dressed like Carmen Sandiego; however, he was not as hard to find as this 1980s classic computer game thief, says Sgt. Wicentowich.
Love definitely was not in the h-air for this man during Valentine’s Dine-and Dash. Police were easily able to identify him with his new hair cut and being dressed like Carmen Sandiego; however, he was not as hard to find as this 1980s classic computer game thief,
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On Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 5:04 p.m. a frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officer received a report about skier who became lost and required rescue after intentionally skiing outside the marked ski boundaries at the Red Mountain Ski Resort, in Rossland, BC.
Red Mountain ski patrol located the man before RCMP and SAR could respond to assist.
The skier is believed not to have suffered injury from his actions.
Please stay within the boundaries of the ski resort. Backcountry skiing involves greater risks that resort skiing especially if your adventure is not planned out carefully. If you ski out-of-bounds at a resort, you may lose your ski pass privileges and access to the mountain, or worse, your life, if you are not prepared for the risk, says Sgt. Wicentowich.
Please stay within the boundaries of the ski resort. Backcountry skiing involves greater risks that resort skiing especially if your adventure is not planned out carefully. If you ski out-of-bounds at a resort, you may lose your ski pass privileges and access to the mountain, or worse, your life, if you are not prepared for the risk,
For more information about adventuring into the backcountry this winter, visit the Avalanche Canada website.
On Saturday, February 15, 2025, at 11:45 p.m. a frontline Trail and Greater District RCMP officer conducted a curfew check on a 50-year-old woman in the 100 block of LeRose Street, in Trail, BC.
The woman was not home as per her court ordered conditions. The officer conducted patrols and located outside her residence returning home.
The officer arrested the woman and lodged her in the cellblock at the Trail Detachment.
The 50-year-old Trail woman remains in custody awaiting a bail hearing before a judge.
Our Crime Reduction Unit will be back in action on March 1, after a long hiatus. We anticipate this unit keeping a close eye on our local offenders and addressing crime hot spots, says Sgt. Wicentowich.
Our Crime Reduction Unit will be back in action on March 1, after a long hiatus. We anticipate this unit keeping a close eye on our local offenders and addressing crime hot spots,
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