Yellowknife RCMP say two people were arrested after a social media post reported a break-in, but stressed they were found in a family member's home.
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RCMP in Yellowknife and Hay River say they found no evidence of break-and-enters in the two communities over Saturday night.
Police in Yellowknife said on Friday that a handful of overnight complaints in the city mostly turned out to be false alarms.
A fire in the vicinity of Yellowknife's Fred Henne park was arson, police said, as they announced two sets of arson arrests on the same night.
NWT RCMP said they had charged a 21-year-old from Ontario after officers seized suspected crack cocaine, cash and drug paraphernalia in Fort Providence.
Zakk Lafferty, 24, faces one count of second-degree murder in connection with the recent death of a 17-year-old in Behchokǫ̀.