The Independent Investigations Office says RCMP officers responded to a report at 10:08 p.m. of a disturbance at a home on Saturday.
Gary Read was in charge of exhibits for the Burnaby detachment until 2011 when he was charged with the theft of about one kilogram of cocaine.
Charges of wilfully making false statements to mislead or attempting to mislead British Columbia's privacy commissioner have been laid against a former provincial government employee.
British Columbia Premier Christy Clark says she's pleased that Canada and the United States are working to resolve a long-standing trade issue over softwood lumber exports.
Police arrested Ellis Kirkland, 60, on a 27th-floor balcony on Thursday afternoon after using ropes to go down the side of a building.
Sgt. Travis Carroll said the victim was struck by the tree that broke through the roof in the Port Moody area, just west of Vancouver.