Pictou County District RCMP have arrested three people for firearms offences after a report of shots fired in River John.
Last Wednesday, at approximately 9:20 a.m., Pictou County District RCMP responded to a report of shots fired near a home on Sergeant Ln. in River John.
RCMP officers secured the area around the home while RCMP Police Dog Services and the Nova Scotia RCMP Emergency Response Team attended to provide assistance.
At approximately 1:55 p.m., after a short negotiation, the occupants of the home surrendered peacefully and were safely arrested.
Five people were arrested, and all were held in custody while a search warrant was executed at the home.
During the search, RCMP officers located and seized unsafely stored firearms, restricted capacity magazines, ammunition and firearms accessories.
A round of military ordnance was also located and safely removed with assistance from the Royal Canadian Navy’s Fleet Diving Unit Atlantic (RCN FDU(A)).
Three people, a 41-year-old New Glasgow man, a 43-year-old River John man and a 30-year-old River John woman, were released on conditions.
They will be facing charges including Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm, Careless Use of a Firearm and Unsafe Storage of a Firearm.
All three will appear in Pictou Provincial Court on April 17th.
The other two people that were arrested were released without charge.
The investigation remains ongoing.
A convicted sex offender has been sentenced to 21 months in jail after breaching a prohibition on using the internet.
55-year-old Gerald Paul Ward pleaded guilty in Truro provincial court in November to two counts of breaching an internet prohibition that was imposed on him at sentencing for sexual interference and child pornography charges in June 2021.
Judge Alan Begin also ordered Ward to seek counselling for sexual deviance and stay out of Pictou County.
His devices that can access the internet will also be forfeited.
Ward was arrested twice since his release last April for not abiding by an order that bans him from using devices that can connect to the internet.
A Nova Scotia Judge has ruled that an American tourist who alleges she was injured in a fall at Nova Scotia’s historic Five Islands Lighthouse in July 2017 can proceed with her lawsuit.
Mary Riddle of Pennsylvania is suing the Municipality of the County of Colchester and the Five Islands Lighthouse Preservation Society for unspecified damages.
She claims she fell onto the second floor of the lighthouse from an internal ladder to the observation deck, but the extent of her injuries is not mentioned.
Supreme Court Justice C. Richard Coughlan said Riddle is suing the county for negligence and breach of duty under the Municipal Government Act.
The Five Islands Lighthouse has been closed to the public since September 2019.
Cape Breton University is set to open its own Medical School.
Premier Tim Houston announced the news at the state of province address in Sydney on Friday.
This new medical school will work with the Dalhousie University medical school in Halifax, which is the currently the only one in the province.
Houston said they are aiming to start taking students by Fall 2025, but if they have the means to open earlier, they will.
Cape Breton University President David Dingwall said this new medical school is expected to graduate up to 30 doctors a year for at least the next 6 years.
CBU will be making room for this medical school by taking over the provincially owned buildings that held the NSCC Marconi Campus, which is moving to a new location in Downtown Sydney.
In the Maritime Junior Hockey League the Pictou County Weeks Crushers lost to the Truro Bearcats on Saturday 6-3
