-- HAY RIVER, NWT and EDMONTON -- Police had suspected Mountie killer Emrah Bulatci in custody on three separate occasions earlier this year on a series of charges, including alleged weapons offences.Turns out... the law can't even save the cops.
He has been charged in three different Alberta cities with more than a dozen crimes since February. Over the weekend, the Mounties charged him in absentia with the first-degree murder of Constable John Worden, 30.Not that the local citizenry did much to help the authorities, or even to help themselves.
The suspect, who may have used a 9 mm handgun in the Saturday attack, was described as a “pushy, mouthy little guy” by one man who knew him in the crack-riddled area of Hay River, NWT, where the killing took place.
“As soon as he showed up we knew there would be trouble,” said Wendy, who only wanted her first name used. “He came to town with two friends. They were all very well dressed. A lot of people around here know them and know they're involved with drugs.”Good call folks... nice neighbourhood you have there.
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RELATED: Yeah, as a matter of fact...
It's way past time to wage war on homicidal, gun-toting crackheads... because they've sure as shit declared war on us.
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LAST WORD: No way... you've got to be kidding
Bronwyn Watters, the Northwest Territories assistant deputy minister for the solicitor general acknowledges the territory has a drug problem.**********
The territory's rate of drug crime was nearly 770 crimes per 100,000 people in 2006, more than 2½ times the Canadian average.
BREAKING: Bulatci surrenders to police
-- EDMONTON -- The man suspected of killing a Mountie in Hay River, N.W.T., is police custody tonight.
Emrah Bulatci, 23, was captured by Edmonton city police at 5 p.m.after a tense stand-off in the west-end neighbourhood of Ormsby Place.
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