Piche faces more charges for feeding bears

Posted on 14. Dec, 2011 by Chris Shepherd in Christina Lake

Allen Piche, the man charged with feeding dozens of black bears around his Christina Lake grow op, has pled guilty to more charges reports CTV BC.

The world’s attention was drawn to the Kootenays in 2010 when police raided a grow op and found dozens of bears hanging around.

Escaped bank robber found passed out on highway

Posted on 04. Oct, 2011 by Chris Shepherd in Christina Lake

Dennis Haines, a convicted bank robber, escaped from a work-release camp late September and was found this weekend near Christina Lake, passed out on the side of the highway, reports the Vancouver Sun.

Haines, 38, is a minimum security inmate and was working at a work-release program near Jasper, Alta. when he escaped on Tuesday, Sept. 27.

Christina Lake bears returning to the wild

Posted on 24. May, 2011 by Chris Shepherd in Christina Lake

Bears once fed $100 worth of dog food a day near Christina Lake appear to be returning to the wild, reports the CBC. The RCMP found the bears after they raided a marijuana grow op on Allen Piche’s property. Initial reports suggested the bears were being used to guard the drugs, but Piche revealed he’d [...]

‘Bear Dude’ pleads guilty to feeding bears

Posted on 25. Mar, 2011 by Chris Shepherd in Christina Lake, Crime

Allen Piche pleaded guilty to feeding dozens of black bears this week, according to a report from the CBC. Piche and the bears made international headlines last summer after the RCMP busted a marijuana grow-op on his Christina Lake property. There, police and found two dozen black bears that were obviously used to being around [...]

Pigs run wild in Christina Lake

Posted on 21. Mar, 2011 by Chris Shepherd in Christina Lake

Deer and black bears were the problem animal in most Kootenay communities last year, but Christina Lake has a new one: pigs. That’s according to a report on the CBC website. Between 25 and 35 European pigs broke free of a local farm (the second time in four years) and are rooting up gardens and [...]