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Leslie

Leslie

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ROCHFORT BRIDGE, ALTA. - A raid on a suspected marijuana grow operation in rural Alberta has left five people dead - four of them RCMP officers. It is the single worst multiple killing of RCMP officers in modern Canadian history. "It's my sad duty to inform you that four RCMP officers, four brave young members have been killed in the line of duty," said RCMP Assistant Commissioner Bill Sweeney. All of those killed were described as junior officers.

According to police the incident unfolded early Thursday morning when four RCMP officers - three from the Mayerthorpe detachment and another from nearby Whitecourt, took part in a raid on farm near Rochfort Bridge. The officers were investigating allegations of stolen property and a marijuana grow operation.

Rochfort Bridge is located near Mayerthorpe, about 130 kilometres northwest of Edmonton.

Looking ashen and shaken, RCMP spokesman Cpl. Wayne Oakes told a news conference that the officers were killed inside a Quonset hut on the farm. They had been shot.

Their bodies were discovered by emergency response team officers at about 2:20 p.m.

Asked if the victims had been ambushed, Oakes said "I don't know."

The suspect is also dead, though police can't say yet if he was killed by other officers, or if he turned his high-power rifle on himself. Oakes did say the suspect "was known to police."

The names of the murdered officers have not been released, pending notification of next of kin. The name of the suspect is also being withheld.

The killing of the four officers appears to be unprecedented in modern Canadian history. "You'd have to go back to 1885, to the Northwest Rebellion, to have a loss of this magnitude. It's devastating," said Sweeney.

Exactly what happened on the farm remains a mystery.

All RCMP will say so far is that some of the four officers took part in an overnight stakeout at the farm and were preparing to serve a search warrant.

But it appears the four were left to guard the Quonset hut. Two were inside and two were outside. The suspect returned, discovered the officers, snuck up on them and killed them.

The first word of a problem came from Alberta Solicitor General Harvey Cenaiko who said the RCMP lost contact with the four at about 10 a.m.

"As far as we know, there's four officers not responding to their radios, so there is an indication that something is serious here," Cenaiko said earlier in the day.

After the shooting the RCMP rushed at least two emergency response teams from Edmonton and Red Deer to the area, along with reinforcements from the Edmonton police. The Canadian military was put on alert, but later told it wasn't needed.
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Sad day.

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Ya. It's been all over the news, here. Only 1 1/2 from where I live. It'll be interesting to get the whole story of what happened, it's shrouded in a little mystery right now.
 
4?! Geez.. It either sounds like they were in the perfect spot to get sniped out or they took automatic weapons fire.

I wonder what kind of tactics the RCMP uses? body armor? flashbang grenades? 2 man teams... or was it a badly handled mass rush?
 
But it appears the four were left to guard the Quonset hut. Two were inside and two were outside. The suspect returned, discovered the officers, snuck up on them and killed them.
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Okay ,I can see the shooter getting two of them ,but the other two would definately not have been taken by surprise after here the first shot. :confused:
 
The only thing I can think of is that he corralled them all at gunpoint and then did it execution style.
 
The incident started on Wednesday afternoon when police went to the property to investigate a suspected grow op. While there, they saw stolen car parts and stolen property. Two officers remained overnight.

Around 10 a.m. local time Thursday, the other officers returned and were shot at. They returned fire.
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http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2005/03/03/rcmpalert050303.html

It looks like the first two may have been killed overnight and the other officers were shot at when they arrived the next day. :confused:
 
It was a nice tribute.

As RCMP officers bowed their heads and blinked away tears, the haunting bugle notes of the Last Post hung over the final moments of a memorial service for four constables gunned down in the line of duty last week.


Thousands of police officers, mourners and dignitaries gathered inside an Edmonton pavilion to honour Constables Peter Schiemann, Leo Johnston, Anthony Gordon and Brock Myrol in the largest memorial service in the Mounties' history. The officers were shot and killed while investigating stolen property and a marijuana grow operation last Thursday near Mayerthorpe, Alta. Their killer, James Roszko, also shot himself.

After two hours of eulogies and tributes, thousands of officers put on their hats and saluted four members as they carried the RCMP flag through the crowd, followed by the red-clad honour guard.

As many as 10,000 police officers from across the country and the United States crammed into the University of Alberta's Butterdome Thursday to witness the ceremony, which was broadcast nationally.
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nah. This was a crazy gun freak holed up with his stolen wrecks in his junkyard of a property with a few plants.
 
Another case where Canada is becoming
more like the U.S.

Do all yer coppers wear body armor like ours do? heh heh

How about carry assault rifles like they do here?

Our crazies and drug dealers always get the full
para-military swat assault team treatment.

yep more like the US everyday and that's not a good thing huh?
 
Leslie said:
nah. This was a crazy gun freak holed up with his stolen wrecks in his junkyard of a property with a few plants.
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Hey, that sounds like Janet & Bills friend, David

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A little like Randy too

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And during the ceremony, in front of all the world's media, the fucking Prime Minister of Canada stood silent during the singing of the National Anthem. Cunt.
 
Wasn't a pot-farm...it was a chop-shop. There just happened to be pot there which they wanted to tack onto the charges.

They were wearing 'vests', but those don't do all that well against assault-rifles in the .40cal range.

Poor guys...what a fuckin' waste!
 
Marijuana industry booming in Canada

Fri Mar 11, 4:35 PM ET

Ontario police have seen a 250 percent increase in indoor pot operations.

By Susan Bourette, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

TORONTO - On the street it's called Northern Lights, Ontario Hydro, and B.C. bud. It's one of Canada's biggest agricultural exports - a potent form of marijuana cultivated in sprawling "grow houses," worth an estimated US$4 billion to $7 billion annually. Much of it is smuggled into the US.

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