Crime
Rocky Mountain House RCMP make arrests in two Violent Home Invasions
December 30, 2017
Rocky Mountain House, Alberta – On December 26, 2017 around 9:15 a.m., Rocky Mountain House RCMP responded to a call for service of a home invasion at a residence in the town of Rocky Mountain House. Upon arrival, Police discovered the lone male suspect had departed. There was evidence to show three individuals in the residence were assaulted and robbed of property. At approximately 10:00 a.m., the same day, three suspects forced their way into another residence within the town of Rocky Mountain House, where the home owner was assaulted with a weapon, unlawfully confined, and robbed of property.
On December 29, 2017, Rocky Mountain House RCMP, with the assistance of the RCMP Calgary Emergency Response Team, executed two search warrants at two different residences within the town of Rocky Mountain House. Several individuals were arrested as a result. Firearms stolen from one of the home invasions were recovered, along with other offence related property. The investigation continued with the assistance of the RCMP Calgary General Investigation Section. The following three individuals have been charged with numerous Criminal Code offences connected to the two home invasions:
Rickie Wapoose CARDINAL (30) of Rocky Mountain House, has been charged with :
– Robbery X 2 – Sec. 344(b) CC
– Break and Enter X 2 – Sec. 348(1)(b) CC
– Uttering Threats X 3 – Sec. 264.1 CC
– Assault with a Weapon X 4 – Sec. 267(a) CC
– Assault X 2 – Sec. 266 CC
– Disobey a Lawful Order X 5 – Sec. 127 CC
– Extortion – Sec. 346(1.1)(a.1) CC
– Pointing a Firearm – Sec. 87 CC
– Unlawful Confinement – Sec. 279(1) CC
– Disguise with Intent – Sec. 351(2) CC
– Robbery to Steal Firearm – Sec. 98.1 CC
– Possession of a Weapon Obtained by Commission of an Offence X 3 – 96(a) CC
– Unlawful Possession of a Firearm X 3 – Sec. 92(1) CC
– Careless Storage of a Firearm – Sec. 86(1) CC
– Possession of Prohibited Weapon – Sec. 91(2) CC
Keehoo Rick CARDINAL (35) of no fixed address, and Shanel BRODERSEN (26) of Rocky Mountain House, have been charged with:
– Robbery – Sec. 344(b) CC
– Break and Enter – Sec. 348(1)(b) CC
– Extortion – Sec. 346(1.1)(a.1) CC
– Pointing a Firearm – Sec. 87 CC
– Unlawful Confinement – Sec. 279(2) CC
– Disguise with Intent – 351(2) CC
– Uttering Threats – Sec. 264.1(1) CC
– Assault with a Weapon X 2 – Sec. 267(a) CC
– Robbery to Steal a Firearm – Sec. 98.1 CC
Police have determined that all the individuals involved in these home invasions were known to one another.
Rickie Wapoose CARDINAL and Shanel BRODERSEN were remanded into police custody and will appear in Rocky Mountain House Provincial Court on Wednesday, January 3, 2018. A warrant for arrest has been sought for Keehoo CARDINAL. The Rocky Mountain House RCMP are seeking the public’s assistance in locating him. If you have information about Keehoo CARDINAL’s whereabouts, please call the Rocky Mountain House RCMP at 403-845-2882 or call your local police service. Keehoo CARDINAL is considered armed and dangerous. If you want to remain anonymous you can contact Crime Stoppers by phone at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), by internet at www.tipsubmit.com or by SMS.
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‘Sadistic’ Canadian murderer claiming to be woman denied transfer to female prison
From LifeSiteNews
The logical decision to house the male murderer with men flies in the face of the Liberal Party’s official stance, which is to incarcerate prisoners according to their ‘self-identified’ gender.
A Canadian man who butchered his family and now claims to be a woman will not be allowed to transfer to a female prison.
On April 8, Correctional Services Canada (CSC) announced that Mohamad Al Ballouz, who brutally murdered his wife and two children, will be sent to a men’s prison, despite claiming to be a woman, according to CTV News.
“When there are overriding health and safety concerns, the request is denied and alternatives are put in place to meet the offender’s gender‑related needs at the institution where they are incarcerated,” the CSC statement reads.
Following an assessment of Al Ballouz request, CSC confirmed that he “will be incarcerated in a men’s institution.”
On December 16, Al Ballouz, a 38-year-old from Quebec, was found guilty second-degree murder of his wife Synthia Bussières, first-degree murder of five-year-old Eliam and two-year-old Zac, and one count of attempted arson.
Crown prosecutor Éric Nadeau revealed that the murder took place in September 2022 when Al Ballouz slaughtered his family at their Brossard apartment. He stabbed his wife 23 times before suffocated his children and trying to set the apartment on fire. He then ingested windshield washer fluid, which is believed to have been a suicide attempt.
During the trial, Quebec Superior Justice Eric Downs described Al Ballouz, as having a “sadistic character” and being “deeply narcissistic.” He was sentenced to life imprisonment with no chance of parole for 25 years.
Throughout the trial, Al Ballouz, a biological male, claimed to be a woman and demanded that he be referred to as “Levana,” a change which was made after he was charged for his crimes. Notably, the Canadian Broadcasting Report’s (CBC’s) report of the case refers to the convicted murder as “she” and uses his fake name.
Following his sentencing, the murderer requested to be sent to the Joliette Institution for Women; however, Downs responded that is a decision for Correctional Service Canada.
Currently under the Liberal Party, the policy is to place prisoners according to their “self-identified” gender, not according to biology. As a result, male rapists and murderers can be sent to prison with females.
However, Al Ballouz’s case caused an uproar on social media as many pointed out that putting the murderer in a women’s prison would pose a danger to female inmates.
Conservative Party leader Pierre Poilievre has condemned the Liberal policy and promised that he would end this practice if elected.
“Surreal: A man who killed his wife and two kids now claims he is a woman to go to a female prison,” he wrote in a December 22 post on X.
“I can’t believe I have to say this: but when I’m PM, there will be no male prisoners in female jails,” Poilievre continued. “Period.”
Business
Canadian Police Raid Sophisticated Vancouver Fentanyl Labs, But Insist Millions of Pills Not Destined for U.S.
Sam Cooper
Mounties say labs outfitted with high-grade chemistry equipment and a trained chemist reveal transnational crime groups are advancing in technical sophistication and drug production capacity
Amid a growing trade war between Washington and Beijing, Canada—targeted alongside Mexico and China for special tariffs related to Chinese fentanyl supply chains—has dismantled a sophisticated network of fentanyl labs across British Columbia and arrested an academic lab chemist, the RCMP said Thursday.
At a press conference in Vancouver, senior investigators stood behind seized lab equipment and fentanyl supplies, telling reporters the operation had prevented millions of potentially lethal pills from reaching the streets.
“This interdiction has prevented several million potentially lethal doses of fentanyl from being produced and distributed across Canada,” said Cpl. Arash Seyed. But the presence of commercial-grade laboratory equipment at each of the sites—paired with the arrest of a suspect believed to have formal training in chemistry—signals an evolution in the capabilities of organized crime networks, with “progressively enhanced scientific and technical expertise among transnational organized crime groups involved in the production and distribution of illicit drugs,” Seyed added.
This investigation is ongoing, while the seized drugs, precursor chemicals, and other evidence continue to be processed, police said.
Recent Canadian data confirms the country has become an exporter of fentanyl, and experts identify British Columbia as the epicenter of clandestine labs supplied by Chinese precursors and linked to Mexican cartel distributors upstream.
In a statement that appears politically responsive to the evolving Trump trade threats, Assistant Commissioner David Teboul said, “There continues to be no evidence, in this case and others, that these labs are producing fentanyl for exportation into the United States.”
In late March, during coordinated raids across the suburban municipalities of Pitt Meadows, Mission, Aldergrove, Langley, and Richmond, investigators took down three clandestine fentanyl production sites.
The labs were described by the RCMP as “equipped with specialized chemical processing equipment often found in academic and professional research facilities.” Photos released by authorities show stainless steel reaction vessels, industrial filters, and what appear to be commercial-scale tablet presses and drying trays—pointing to mass production capabilities.
The takedown comes as Canada finds itself in the crosshairs of intensifying geopolitical tension.
Fentanyl remains the leading cause of drug-related deaths in Canada, with toxic supply chains increasingly linked to hybrid transnational networks involving Chinese chemical brokers and domestic Canadian producers.
RCMP said the sprawling B.C. lab probe was launched in the summer of 2023, with teams initiating an investigation into the importation of unregulated chemicals and commercial laboratory equipment that could be used for synthesizing illicit drugs including fentanyl, MDMA, and GHB.
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