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Yel­lowknife NT CN

Edi­to­r­ial

EDMONTON — A Yel­lowknife RCMP offi­cer has been charged in con­nec­tion with money miss­ing from an evi­dence locker and threats made to fel­low officers.

Sgt. Larry O’Brien has been charged with theft under $5,000, breach of trust and forg­ing a doc­u­ment. Due to an inci­dent on June 25, O’Brien also faces a charge of utter­ing threats to five fel­low Moun­ties in Yel­lowknife. O’Brien was arrested on that charge, but has since been released.

In Jan. 2009, $2,000 went miss­ing from an evi­dence locker in the Yel­lowknife detach­ment. The money was found the next day, although an inves­ti­ga­tion was still launched.

In May 2009, when the inves­ti­ga­tion uncov­ered crim­i­nal activ­ity, RCMP offi­cers from Edmon­ton took over. The inves­ti­ga­tion was com­pleted in March, although an inter­nal inves­ti­ga­tion into the mat­ter is ongoing.

O’Brien was sus­pended from the RCMP in Feb­ru­ary 2010. He had been an RCMP offi­cer for 21 years, 13 of them in the North­west Territories.

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