A 50-year-old man is wanted on a province wide warrant for numerous incidents, which police say happened throughout Colchester County over two years. 

Christopher George Rae has been charged with: 

•  uttering threats 

•  fraud 
•  personation with intent 
•  impaired operation 
•  failure to comply with conditions 

Police say they’ve made several attempts to locate Rae, but have been unsuccessful so far. 

Rae is described as five-foot-nine, 225 pounds with light brown hair and blue eyes. 

Anyone with information on his whereabouts is asked to not approach him and call Colchester County District RCMP or the Truro Police Service.  

Anonymous information can also be provided to Crime Stoppers by calling 1-800-222-8477. 

 

 

A 27-year-old New Glasgow man is facing drug and weapons charges following a single-vehicle crash in Kemptown on Feb. 8. 

Colchester County RCMP officers responded to the scene of the crash on Highway 104 just after 8:30 p.m.  

Responding officers learned that an SUV had been travelling on the highway when it left the road, crashing and coming to rest in the tree line. 

The man appeared to be impaired, but police said he would not provide a suitable breath sample. 

Officers searched the man and seized brass knuckles, and he was arrested.  

An officer also located two large vacuum-sealed bags of suspected cocaine in the woods near the crash site.  

Police also found and seized flavoured vape cartridges and two cell phones. 

Travis Greencorn has been charged with possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking, possession of a prohibited weapon, carrying a concealed weapon, refusal to comply with demand and failure to comply with an undertaking. He was taken into custody and was set to appear in Truro provincial court yesterday. 

 

 

Federal lawyers say it was lawful and reasonable to charge Lisa Banfield for supplying her husband with ammunition that was used in the 2020 mass shooting. 

Lawyer Patricia MacPhee rejected the accusation by Lisa Banfield that the RCMP conspired to stage a malicious prosecution against her in the Nova Scotia Supreme Court. 

Banfield alleges she was charged in December 2020 because the RCMP wanted to deflect attention from mistakes police made during the response and investigation into the killings. 

MacPhee says Banfield was cautioned during police interviews that statements about providing ammunition to her spouse could be used as evidence. 

The RCMP charged Banfield, her brother and brother-in-law with unlawfully transferring the killer ammunition.  

Police acknowledged at the time that the three had no knowledge of what the gunman would do, and the Crown withdrew the charges after the trio participated in a restorative justice program. 

 

 

Nova Scotia is reporting two new COVID-19-related deaths in its weekly update. 

The province is also reporting 25 deaths from previous reporting periods. 

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, 753 people in Nova Scotia have died of the virus. 

As of Thursday, Nova Scotia Health said there were 30 people in hospital because of COVID-19, 4 of those are currently in the ICU. 

The data released in Thursday’s report covers between Jan. 31 and Feb. 6. 

 

 

In the Maritime Junior Hockey League: 

The Yarmouth mariners beat the Pictou County Weeks Crushers last night 6-1.