A Regina Police Service officer is facing criminal charges after allegedly keeping a prohibited firearm that was handed over to him for destruction during a 2022 provincial gun amnesty. Const. Sheldon Kowalchuk, a seven-year member who was working as a patrol officer at the time, has been charged with Breach of Trust (CC 122) and Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm (CC 91(1)). Police allege he obtained a Bushmaster XM15-E2S — an AR-15 style semi-automatic rifle that has been prohibited since May 2020 — for his own benefit instead of ensuring it was destroyed. He reportedly went alone to collect the gun after a member of the public called for police to pick it up under the amnesty program (which allowed people to surrender illegal or unwanted firearms without facing charges). The Regina Police Service only became aware of the incident in March 2026 after being alerted by the Saskatchewan Firearms Office. An internal investigation by the Professional Standards Unit followed, and the Crown recommended the charges. The firearm has been seized. Kowalchuk is suspended with pay under the Police Act and is scheduled to make his first appearance in Regina Provincial Court on December 15, 2026. Police say there is no evidence the gun was used or that it posed a public safety risk. Chief Lorilee Davies addressed the charges at a news conference. She called the situation “disappointing” and said, “No chief wants to be the person standing in front of the community saying one of our own has been charged criminally.” She stressed accountability: “It’s important to me that we’re accountable, that we show we have a set of standards, that we’re not sweeping anything under the rug.” She added that she has stood in front of the public in similar situations more times in the past year than she would like, that “these are not easy days for our service,” and that “any type of misconduct will not be condoned.” Davies also noted that police are held to a higher standard of conduct and that the officer failed to meet the expectations of both the service and the community.
BREAKING🚨 Trump says the Epstein files cleared him. His Justice Department is still fighting in court to hide FBI notes, one from a woman who says he sexually assaulted and punched her as a young teen. In 2019, days after Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex-trafficking charges, the FBI interviewed a woman four times. She said Epstein introduced her to Trump in New York or New Jersey in the 1980s, when she was between 13 and 15. She said Trump forced her into a sex act, she bit him, and he punched her in the head and threw her out. She told agents he said something like "get this little b**** the hell out of here." The Justice Department put her allegation in an internal 2025 slideshow, on a page titled "Prominent Names." But when it released about 3.5 million pages of Epstein files in January, only one of her four interviews was public. That one didn't mention Trump. Reporters who tracked the page serial numbers found more than 50 pages missing, as Stephen Fowler first reported in NPR. In March the department admitted 15 documents had been "incorrectly coded as duplicative" and released three more interview summaries. Dozens of pages still stayed hidden. In her last FBI interview, the woman asked agents what the point was when there was "a strong possibility nothing could be done about it." The interviews ended after she reported threatening calls from people she couldn't identify. Through her lawyer, she asked the FBI to stop contacting her. On November 9, Senior U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan, a Reagan appointee, ordered Attorney General Todd Blanche to publish the agents' handwritten notes by November 23. Sullivan read the notes himself first. The department had argued that handwritten notes were too hard to redact, even though it had already published more than 100 redacted handwritten documents. Sullivan paused his order so Blanche can go to the appeals court, and the department has already appealed Sullivan's earlier rulings on these same notes. The allegation has never been proven, and Trump denies it. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt called the woman "sadly disturbed" and said Trump was "totally exonerated." The agents' notes still haven't been released.
BREAKING🚨 White House just threatened Democrats: investigating Trump could be a CRIME. In a letter dated Monday, White House counsel Will Scharf told Rep. Robert Garcia, the Democrat set to chair the House Oversight Committee, that his planned probes "may cross the line into blatant criminality." Scharf added that issuing what he calls "unlawful subpoenas" "may warrant further investigation." The letter goes after Garcia's two-word message to Trump officials after Democrats won the House and Senate in last week's midterms: "Lawyer up." Scharf says the White House is "monitoring" what he calls "abusive and capricious threats" from Democratic lawmakers. Scharf mocked Garcia for describing his motives as "'gay' 'pettiness'" and for comparing himself to "a demonic clown," pointing to a podcast appearance and a post using an image from the movie "It." Garcia's agenda includes how Trump and his family have gotten richer since he returned to office, the handling of the Epstein investigation, ICE operations, the White House ballroom, and Trump's crypto dealings with envoy Steve Witkoff. "It appears Donald Trump has something to hide," Garcia said. "Congress' authority comes from Article I of the Constitution, not from the permission of the White House." The Supreme Court has repeatedly held that the power to investigate is built into Congress's power to make laws. For decades, courts have refused to dig into individual lawmakers' motives. Attorneys pointed out that members of Congress are shielded by the Constitution's Speech and Debate Clause, and that obstructing a congressional investigation is what's actually a crime. Normally the Justice Department handles oversight fights with Congress. This threat came straight from the White House, days after Trump posted Saturday that he was "ordering the Department of Justice to look into this criminal act, immediately!" On Sunday, Attorney General Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer, said he plans to investigate Democrats. He couldn't name a crime. Asked on CNN whether there was one, he said "it depends on what's said." His message to Trump's staff: "If you work in this administration, you have a lawyer." This administration has already tried to prosecute six Democratic lawmakers over a video urging troops to refuse illegal orders. Grand juries refused to indict them
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