Drug dealer given eight-year sentence after hatchet assault on woman
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Drug dealer given eight-year sentence after hatchet assault on woman
Ollie Williams
Monday July 6, 2026 at 5:57am MT
Yellowknife's courthouse. Ollie Williams/Cabin Radio
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A BC drug dealer in his 20s who assaulted a woman in Hay River and took a hatchet to her finger has been sentenced to eight years in prison.
Hindowa Sama had pleaded guilty to one count of aggravated assault and one of possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
Sama, then 21, and then-19-year-old Evann Rochon were arrested in 2024 after what RCMP characterized as a hostage rescue inside a home on Riverview Driv…
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