March 11th 11:45 am
RCMP received a call from a manager of the Natural Conservatory of Canada regarding finding dynamite in a barn located on land that the government was managing. RCMP in Russell contacted the RCMP bomb squad who attended to the farm near St. Lazare and found several boxes of dynamite had degraded due to age and had become very unstable and much more likely to ignite while being moved. Because it couldn’t be transported off site safely, the RCMP bomb robot was sent in and the dynamite was safely dragged from the barn and into a field where it was safely detonated.
March 11th 5:30 pm
A female attended to the Russell detachment reporting that a Russell man had made comments she didn’t like on Facebook. The female did not want any investigation into the matter but asked police to take away this man’s phone. She was advised that police couldn’t do that. She was also given information on how to apply for a restraining order if she so wished.

Read the whole RCMP report on page 3 of this week's Russell Banner.