Amanda Vaughan
Northern News Services
Published Wednesday, August 29, 2007

YELLOWKNIFE - A man has been charged with assault after police responded to complaint from a security guard who had been attacked with a knife following an altercation at Centre Square Mall last Tuesday.

The security guard reported the incident to police shortly after noon on Aug. 21.

The man had already left the scene, but police were able to locate and arrest him without incident. The security guard was not injured.

RCMP Const. Roxanne Dreilich said that the police report "didn't specify the type of knife the assailant was carrying."

Run for the border

A 35-year-old Yellowknife man alerted the RCMP after his ex-wife, also aged 35 and living in Alberta, took off with their three children last Monday, a few days before his term of custody was to end.

Dreilich said the man advised RCMP that his ex-wife had taken the children under a false pretense and then simply left town on Highway 3.

Dreilich added that the man was okay with the children going with their mother a couple of days early but was concerned about their 16-year-old daughter, who had expressed a wish to stay with him.

RCMP intercepted the car, and removed the oldest child from her mother's care. The incident is still under investigation for possible charges of parental abduction.

A little money between friends

A 31-year-old man reported that he was assaulted and robbed after a party on the morning of Wednesday Aug. 22, according to Dreilich.

"The two men had been socializing, along with several other people, and the incident occurred after they went to leave," said Dreilich. The men had left the party shortly after 8 a.m. Wednesday.

The victim said the other man assaulted him and took all of his money in the commons area of the building where the gathering had taken place. The incident is still under investigation.