Photographer: Jennifer Stahn

Vicious assault on Penticton delivery man

PENTICTON – A Penticton delivery man making a late night call to a Westminster Avenue residence was seriously assaulted yesterday.

Police were called to Penticton Regional Hospital around 1 a.m. this morning, Dec. 15, after receiving a call of a 35-year-old man suffering serious lacerations to his hands and face from an assault.

While making a late night pizza delivery to the residence on Westminister Avenue, the customer attacked the delivery man with a box cutter. He managed to fend off the attacker before driving himself to hospital.

Police attended the address and took a 27-year-old man into custody. A search warrant was issued for the residence and police are continuing their investigation. It is not believed the two knew each other prior to the incident.

The accused faces a court date tomorrow, Wednesday, Dec. 16.

The delivery man received stitches and has since been released from the hospital. 

To contact a 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.

— This story was updated at 12:20 p.m., Dec. 15, 2015, with additional details from RCMP.

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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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