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South Okanagan roadside checks result in arrest for outstanding warrant

South Okanagan roadside checks result in arrest for outstanding warrant | iNFOnews.ca
Police were out in force at the scales on Highway 97 south of Penticton targeting motorcycles, commercial vehicles and anything towing a trailer, Friday, June 19, 2015. Photographer: Steve Arstad

PENTICTON – RCMP in the South Okanagan have arrested a man wanted in Calgary in connection with the sexual assault of a young child.

Police say it all started with an uninsured driver who was stopped during one of the roadside checks conducted by the police on Saturday, June 20.

Four days later, RCMP arrested a 49-year-old man in a rural area between Oliver and Osoyoos who is wanted on a Canada-wide warrant on a charge of sexually assaulting a young child, according to a media release.

The man is on his way to Calgary for a date with a judge.

In total, five warrants have been issued so far as a result of the weekend’s roadside checks, police say.

To contact the reporter for this story, email Steve Arstad at sarstad@infonews.ca or call 250-488-3065. To contact the editor, email mjones@infonews.ca or call 250-718-2724.

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  1. Bill D Tench

    Keep it up R.C.M.P. how many fairly decent tax payers did you extort to catch this one guy? This one person who doesn’t believe your propoganda for a second… Keep going for easy tickets, cause it’s just the matter of time till the rest of canada wakes up. Then realizes your nothing more than a gov’t cash cow.. R.C.M.P as well as the C.V.S.E. need a serious knock in the head.. Hopefully just to knock some sort of sense into this useless police work that’s done.. Meanwhile the true criminals are running rampant.. So sad that some people actually believe they are “protected.”

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Steve Arstad

I have been looking for news in the South Okanagan - SImilkameen for 20 years, having turned a part time lifelong interest into a full time profession. After five years publishing a local newsletter, several years working as a correspondent / stringer for several local newspapers and seven years as editor of a Similkameen weekly newspaper, I joined iNFOnews.ca in 2014. My goal in the news industry has always been to deliver accurate and interesting articles about local people and places. My interest in the profession is life long - from my earliest memories of grade school, I have enjoyed writing.
As an airborne geophysical surveyor I travelled extensively around the globe, conducting helicopter borne mineral surveys.
I also spent several years at an Okanagan Falls based lumber mill, producing glued-wood laminated products.
As a member of the Kaleden community, I have been involved in the Kaleden Volunteer Fire Department for 22 years, and also serve as a trustee on the Kaleden Irrigation District board.
I am currently married to my wife Judy, of 26 years. We are empty-nesters who enjoy living in Kaleden with our Welsh Terrier, Angus, and cat, Tibbs.
Our two daughters, Meagan and Hayley, reside in Richmond and Victoria, respectively.

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