Cranberry Portage RCMP are on the lookout for a driver wanted on several charges after a fatal accident on the Sherridon Road last summer.
On August 9, RCMP from the Cranberry Portage detachment were called to the Sherridon Road for a report of a single-vehicle rollover, about nine kilometres from the intersection between the road and Highway 10. When police arrived at the scene, they discovered that a vehicle with four people inside - a 32-year-old man from Swan River identified as the driver, a 15-year-old girl from Flin Flon and a pair of 33-year-old men, one from The Pas and another from Pukatawagan - had gone into a ditch and rolled. All four people were taken to hospital.
"Alcohol was suspected and officers began an impaired investigation," reads a Jan. 27 Manitoba RCMP news release detailing the incident.
According to the news release, five days after the accident, RCMP were informed that one of the passengers, the 33-year-old man from The Pas, had died of injuries sustained in the crash.
On October 5, Cranberry Portage RCMP obtained an arrest warrant for the driver during the accicdent, who Manitoba RCMP have identified as Jesse Aaron Campbell. RCMP described the man as six feet tall and about 185 pounds with brown eyes and black hair and said he may be in the Swan River or Winnipeg areas.
RCMP said Campbell faces several criminal charges, including operation of a conveyance while impaired causing death, operation of a conveyance with a blood alcohol concentration equal to or over 80 mg% causing death, two counts of operation of a conveyance while impaired causing bodily harm, two counts of operation of a conveyance with a blood alcohol concentration equal to or over 80 mg% causing bodily harm, operation of a conveyance while impaired, operation of a conveyance with a blood alcohol concentration equal to or over 80 mg% and operation of a conveyance while prohibited.
Anyone with information on Campbell's whereabouts are asked to call the Cranberry Portage RCMP detachment at (204) 472-4040 or contact Crime Stoppers anonymously at 1-800-222-8477 or at manitobacrimestoppers.com.
The accused has not been tried in court on any of the aforementioned charges.
