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Man pleads not guilty to charges stemming from 2024 crash near Albany, P.E.I.
The charges against stem from a single-vehicle crash in Albany in August 2024 that left two young people dead. Dona Shaji, 23, was pronounced dead at the scene, while 24-year-old Jugal Kishore Mehta later died of his injuries.
P.E.I. man sentenced to spend 7 years in prison for incest apologizes to daughter
A Prince Edward Island man in his late 50s will spend the next seven years in a federal prison after pleading guilty to an incest charge after a sexual encounter with his own daughter resulted in the birth of a child.
Charlottetown man sentenced to 5 years for taking hostage during attempted jailbreak
Johnathan Joseph Trainor, 29, pleaded guilty to eight charges in January and was sentenced last week. All of the charges against him stemmed from incidents in the summer of 2024.
Strategic Holdings to pay $20K in fines as environmental charges against owner dropped
A judge has ordered Summerside development company Strategic Holdings Inc. to pay $20,000 in fines after the company entered two guilty pleas on environment charges.
Charlottetown lawyer who was former PC Party candidate and staffer charged with sexual assault
A partner at a Charlottetown law firm who also used to be a provincial Progressive Conservative candidate and party spokesperson has been charged with sexual assault.
Abegweit First Nations man pleads not guilty after cigarette bust, citing treaty rights
John Bernard says he was openly running a smoke shop out of his home on the reserve in Scotchfort, P.E.I., for about a year before he was pulled over by police and arrested. He believes he has the right to do so.
P.E.I. coroner's jury calls for changes in how people found not criminally responsible are treated
The six jurors who heard evidence at the coroner's inquest into the death of Colton Clarkin made 12 recommendations aimed at preventing future deaths — including deals with forensic psychiatric hospitals in other provinces to have them accept Island patients found not criminally responsible for their offences.
Only 1 piece of evidence linked Colton Clarkin with suicide before his 2023 death, inquest hears
Testimony wrapped up Friday at the coroner's inquest into the death of Colton Clarkin in July 2023, but the process will now stretch into an unplanned fourth day on Monday.
Colton Clarkin needed a kind of care P.E.I. doesn't offer, psychiatrist tells inquest
Dr. Declan Boylan spent more than four hours testifying before a Charlottetown inquest Thursday, detailing what happened during the 10 months he treated Colton Clarkin in the psychiatric hospital after the province’s Criminal Code Review Board sent him there.
Colton Clarkin fled Hillsborough Hospital while walking in grounds with his father, inquest hears
The inquest into the death of Colton Clarkin got underway in Charlottetown Wednesday — painting a picture of how the 27-year-old was able to die by suicide while classified as an involuntary patient at Hillsborough Hospital.