RCMP briefs from around the province
Red Deer
Two people were arrested at a Red Deer Rebels hockey game Saturday night, after the woman assaulted a police officer and the man attempted to intervene in her arrest.
RCMP report that on Nov. 18 at 9:30 a.m., officers on duty at the game were asked by security to remove a woman who security staff believed to be highly intoxicated and who was refusing to leave the building.
The hockey game had ended but many attendees were still in the building when two RCMP officers approached the suspect. The woman allegedly resisted verbal requests from security and police, and then struck one of the police officers. When RCMP placed her under arrest she allegedly resisted vigorously, striking and kicking both police officers repeatedly. Her male companion attempted to intervene and was also placed under arrest. The incident required several more police officers to attend in order to restrain the suspect, who was eventually arrested without injury. Both police officers sustained minor injuries during her arrest.
The 21-year-old woman has charged with three counts of assaulting a police officer, two charges of resisting/obstructing a police officer, uttering threats, and mischief. A 27year-old man faces two counts of uttering threats and one charge of mischief.
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A 30-year-old man from Rocky Mountain House has been arrested for child luring following an investigation by Rocky Mountain House RCMP and ALERT’s Internet Child Exploitation unit.
Tyler James Cumberland was arrested on November 16 following allegations of online sexualized chats involving a 12-year-old girl. The two met through social media and the accused was allegedly aware that the victim was underage.
Explicit chats and photos were discovered by the victim’s parents who contacted police in August. Rocky Mountain House RCMP were able to identify the suspect and make an arrest with the assistance of the ICE unit, and execute a search warrant at a residence where electronic devices were seized.
Cumberland has been charged with two counts of child luring, making child pornography, possessing child pornography, accessing child pornography, and making sexually explicit materials available to a child.
Cumberland is schedule to appear in court on December 6 in Rocky Mountain House.
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Slave Lake
A third man has been arrested as part of an investigation into the murder of a woman whose body was recovered from Lesser Slave Lake River in August. On Tuesday, Nov. 14, members of the RCMP Slave Lake Detachment’s General Investigation Section (GIS) arrested Braden Eric Foster, age 27, on an outstanding warrant of arrest in connection with the homicide of Nicole Brenda Robar whose body was recovered on Aug. 5. Foster has been charged with several criminal offences including kidnapping, forcible confinement, assault causing bodily harm and extortion in relation to the death of Robar.
Two other individuals were charged earlier this year in August with second degree murder in connection the homicide, including 34-year-old Warren Kyle Warren of Slave Lake, and 27-year-old Jessica Melinda Davis of Spruce Grove.
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Lac La Biche
A warrant has been issued for the arrest of 22-year-old Lloyd Wesley Boudreau of Lac La Biche in connection with the first degree murder of 26year-old Michael Matthew Mountain on Oct. 28.
Investigators of the homicide also are looking for a missing woman, Mandi Leah Boucher, age 25 of Buffalo Lake Metis Settlement, who was reported missing to the Boyle RCMP Detachment on the same day Mountain’s body was discovered.
Boucher is known to Boudreau, and may be in his company. Investigators have been following up on tips that Boudreau and Boucher have been seen in Lac La Biche, St. Paul, Boyle and Edmonton.