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Post by Sher on May 15, 2005 15:18:18 GMT -5
DARTMOUTH, N.S. -- A Nova Scotia woman who uses a wheelchair was robbed in broad daylight, just metres from her home.
Sandra Popke, of Dartmouth, was approached by a woman Friday who followed her off a city bus and across the street.
The attacker offered to help Popke, who declined, and then grabbed hold of the wheelchair. The woman then threatened Popke with a knife and forced her to give up her wallet.
Popke tried to fight back and even chased the attacker with her wheelchair, but the attacker ran away. She said she shouted at some passing drivers but they didn't stop.
Police said the attacker was 35-40 years old.
No arrests had been made.
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Post by Sher on May 28, 2005 10:59:36 GMT -5
HALIFAX -- A man charged with keeping his mother's remains in a refrigerator has been ordered to have a psychiatric assessment.
Police arrested Robert Alan Halpern, 61, after making the grisly discovery at a city apartment building on Thursday. He appeared in provincial court yesterday.
Police spokesman Const. Mark Hobeck said neighbours in the 11-storey building called authorities to complain about a smell coming from the third-floor apartment shared by Halpern and 90-year-old Bertha Halpern.
NOT SEEN
Hobeck said a building employee told police he hadn't seen the elderly woman for about 10 months.
When police went to the building Thursday morning to check on her, Robert Halpern was co-operative.
"He let the officers in and said she was in the fridge," Hobeck said.
He wouldn't say when the woman died.
"It's fair to say it's been some time," Hobeck said, adding Bertha Halpern was a small woman.
The charge alleges Robert Halpern "did improperly interfere with the human remains of Bertha Halpern by placing her body in a refrigerator" between April 25 and May 26.
The maximum penalty on conviction is five years in prison.
AUTOPSY
An autopsy was being done, but police found no obvious signs of injury on the woman's body, said Hobeck.
The bearded Halpern, who looked slightly glassy-eyed, wore blue pants and a blue, hooded sweater and said nothing during his five-minute court appearance.
Lawyer Cameron MacKeen represented the accused.
Halpern is to return to court June 2 after his psychiatric assessment.
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Post by Sher on Jun 16, 2005 12:38:00 GMT -5
MILLBROOK, N.S. -- The mother of a 21-year-old Nova Scotia man fatally stabbed during a large outdoor party is appealing to youths who witnessed the murder to come forward.
Valerie Julian Meader, 51, of Millbrook First Nation, says she desperately needs help identifying who among the partygoers killed her son, Matthew Meader.
The young man was attending an end-of-school-year party just after midnight last Friday at a farm in Onslow, N.S., when he was attacked.
Over 200 people were at the event.
RCMP Sgt. Dave Darrah says so far no eyewitnesses have come forward.
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Post by Sher on Jun 22, 2005 14:38:07 GMT -5
AMHERST, N.S. -- A Nova Scotia man who broke into a house and sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl as she lay sleeping has been sentenced to five years in prison.
Harvey Joseph Venus, 19, of Amherst pleaded guilty yesterday to break and enter and sexual assault in the June 3 incident in Amherst.
The girl, whose name can't be published, awoke to find Venus standing at the foot of her bed.
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Post by Sher on Aug 15, 2005 10:54:25 GMT -5
GLEN HAVEN, N.S. -- The discovery of the bodies of two young men - one found in the house and the other bloodied body found in the front yard - has rattled the nerves of a small community near Peggy's Cove, N.S.
Almost two dozen police officers continued to comb the house and property last night, more than 12 hours after they were called about a body found in the ditch in front of a small home in Glen Haven, about 40 km west of Halifax.
A second body was found inside the home on the wooded property. Police also cordoned off another house located behind the property, after smashing through the front door.
Police have released few details about their investigation, saying only the two men were likely in their 20s and their deaths are "suspicious."
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Post by Sher on Aug 22, 2005 13:47:47 GMT -5
GLEN HAVEN, N.S. -- One week after a double murder left a small Nova Scotia community on edge, the house of the man charged in the murders was firebombed.
RCMP said someone threw several "Molotov thingytails" at the house in Glen Haven, located about 40 kilometres west of Halifax, yesterday. One of them landed inside and set the home on fire.
The house is located behind the home where the bodies of Adam Nicholas Eisenhauer, 26, and Tyler Glenn Sampson, 25, were found exactly one week earlier.
Someone saw Sampson lying bleeding on the street and called 911, but Sampson died on the way to hospital. Eisenhauer's body was later found inside the house, where he lived alone.
Michael Joseph Mitchelmore, 25, is charged with two counts of first-degree murder.
Shortly after finding the bodies, police kicked in the door to Mitchelmore's house as part of their investigation.
"(The fire) was in relation to the death of the two individuals at ... the other residence," said Sgt. Scott Warnica. "They were upset and they burnt the buddy's house.
RCMP said the house was badly damaged by the fire, though no one was inside at the time. A 23-year-old male, whose name was not released, faces arson charges
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