Salmon Arm-area man linked to farm where body found facing new charge

Curtis Wayne Sagmoen, whose family farm was at the centre of a massive police search last year, is facing a new criminal charge, this one for mischief under $5,000.

The new charge against Sagmoen, 37, was laid last week but pertains to something that happened last July 19 in Falkland, about 25 kilometres away from Sagmoen’s family farm near the town of Silver Creek, south of Salmon Arm.

He is to appear in court in Vernon Friday morning for his first appearance on the mischief charge.

In late January, Sagmoen was charged with assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon for an incident on Aug. 10, 2017, and assault relating to another incident on July 1, 2017.

Some information about these assault charges have been previously reported, but Sagmoen attended a bail hearing in court on Wednesday in connection with these assault charges and any details discussed are now protected by a publication ban.

Sagmoen’s name was first in the news in October when he was charged with pointing a firearm, uttering threats and disguising his face with intent to commit an offence in relation to an alleged attack on a sex-trade worker near his family’s farm on Aug. 28, 2017.

In October, major crime investigators did a largescale search on the farm and the remains of a missing woman, 18-year-old Traci Genereaux, were discovered. The 9.7-hectare farm belongs to Sagmoen’s parents and he was known to have lived in a trailer parked on the property.

No charges have been laid in relation to Genereaux’s death.

Sagmoen is scheduled to return to court again on Feb. 19.