Province wants Kelowna sex offender’s truck after two charges filed within six weeks
The province is going after a Kelowna sex offender’s pickup truck, alleging that he used the vehicle to meet up with a teen and sexually assault them.
The BC Director of Civil Forfeiture filed in court Jan. 27, in an attempt to seize Alexander Schoenherr’s 2023 Dodge Ram, which was seized by the RCMP following his arrest in August 2025.
The court documents don’t go into much detail but say that Schoenherr used the truck to transport a person under the age of 16 and then sexually assault them. The incident took place Aug. 12, 2025, near Metchosin on Vancouver Island.
He was later charged with sexual assault and sexual interference of a person under 16. He remains in custody as his case moves through the court system. That was just six weeks after police allege he committed more sexual offences in Salmon Arm.
“The vehicle is an instrument of unlawful activity,” the court documents say.
The BC Director of Civil Forfeiture has the power to apply to the court to seize property from individuals, regardless of whether they’ve been charged or convicted. It’s more commonly used to confiscate property and assets bought with the proceeds of crime.
“The vehicle has been used by A. Schoenherr to engage in unlawful activities, which variously resulted in, or caused, or could have resulted in serious bodily harm,” the court documents say.
The court documents don’t give a dollar value, but according to Autotrader, the vehicle is worth between $24,000 and $31,000.
Schoenherr, born 1989, made headlines in 2015 when he was jailed for 90 days for having sex with a 14-year-old girl when he was 25 years old.
At the time, he was an amateur boxer and self-described ‘loner.’ He had a relationship with the 14-year-old until the girl’s father found out. His lawyer said at the time that Schoenherr didn’t have pedophilic interests and that having sex with the teen was more about opportunity than sexual preference.
Now he’s facing multiple allegations and criminal charges. He stands charged with communicating for sexual services from someone under 18 and luring a person under 18 from an incident in Salmon Arm in June last year.
Court documents show that he lived in Kelowna until 2024, when his sister took legal action to get him to move out of a property the family owned when their father died.
None of the charges has been proven in court.
Schoenherr did not respond to a request for comment.
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While I appreciate that the alleged offence is going to garner all kinds of on-line hatred, the use of the forfeiture provisions in something like this seems like quite an over-reach. If this is going to apply, is every vehicle that is driven to a location where a criminal offence occurs going to be seized? Is the BC Director of Civil Forfeiture’s office going to be used as a cash cow? Given some of the stories I’ve read in the past it seems perhaps it already is.