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RCMP surrounded the green house depicted above, in a standoff in December with Bay Bulls resident Leo Crockwell. A week-long police standoff in eastern Newfoundland cost almost $500,000 before the Mounties lost their man. The RCMP released an estimate of costs for the December siege in Bay...

Leo Crockwell was arrested Saturday, after a weeklong armed standoff with RCMP in Bay Bulls, south of St. John's. Police in eastern Newfoundland are investigating how a man was able to walk away from an armed standoff with the RCMP without being noticed. Leo Crockwell, 55, appeared in...

An investigation is being launched after a man who had barricaded himself inside a home in a community south of St. John's for eight days was able to slip away without police knowing. Leo Crockwell, 55, was arrested on Saturday in Petty Harbour, about 20 kilometres northeast of the site of the...

RCMP in eastern Newfoundland said that a man who has barricaded himself in a house fired at police officers late Wednesday. Leo Crockwell, who is wanted on a warrant for charges that include assault with a weapon and uttering threats, fired shots at police after RCMP tried to flush him out of a...