Erika Sherk
Northern News Services
Wednesday, March 02, 2007

YELLOWKNIFE - A man reported prostitution to RCMP after an incident Feb. 19, said RCMP Const. Roxanne Dreilich.

He had picked up a young girl on Franklin Avenue by Aven Manor to give her a ride home, believing her to be his daughter's friend.

It was only when she was in his car he realized she was not the girl he had originally thought, said Dreilich.

"She then offered herself in prostitution to him," said Dreilich. "He of course refused."

After his refusal, the girl got out of the vehicle and left. The man, a Yellowknife resident, immediately called RCMP, who set out on patrol, but could not locate the girl, believed to be in her teens.

"It's pretty rare," said Dreilich, that they receive information on prostitution. "It's rare that it's reported."

The man was concerned, she said, as the girl seemed to be quite young.

Ring heist

A tray of 20 gold and diamond rings was stolen from Eldonn Jewellery some time between Feb. 21 and 22, said Dreilich.

The rings, worth as much as $18,000 all together, were in a display case at the store in the YK Centre downtown.

Store employees last saw the rings on Feb 21, she said.

It was noticed they were missing the morning of Feb. 22.

The rings, 19 of which were men's, were all made of local Yellowknife gold, according to Dreilich.

Busted by grandma

The grandmother of a 16-year-old boy reported him to police after suspecting that he was smoking marijuana.

RCMP attended and confiscated the leftover burnt remains of a marijuana joint, said Dreilich. No one was charged.

In a second no-charge drug seizure, 37 one-gram rocks of crack cocaine were discovered in a snowbank in the Rycon area.

"It obviously fell out of someone's pocket," said Dreilich.

Five bags were found all together, each containing seven cocaine rocks, she said.