South Okanagan roadside checks result in arrest for outstanding warrant
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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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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