Vigilante action results in charges

Charges have been approved against a Kamloops man, after a man who thought he was communicating with a 14-yearold girl was snared by an Okanagan-based online vigilante group. Kevin Johnston, a former B.C. deputy sheriff, has been charged with three counts of communicating with a person believed to be underage for the purpose of facilitating a sexual offence, and one count of invitation to sexual touching. The charges were approved on Sept. 7 and announced this week. Last week, an RCMP officer in Surrey was arrested and is being investigated for child luring and sexual exploitation. His name has not been made public. This after a vigilante group called Creep Catchers released video of a confrontation with a man who thought he was meeting an underage girl.