A CBC News report is for the first time shedding light on an incident in which a northern Manitoba RCMP officer took home an intoxicated woman he had arrested to pursue a personal relationship.
CBC said it obtained adjudication documents detailing the 2011 incident, which took place in the First Nations community of Nelson House.
According to the report, the documents show the officer helped arrest the woman at a party and placed her in a cell to sober up. Six hours later, he returned to the detachment in civilian clothing and asked for the woman to be released into his care.
The officer and the woman left in his personal vehicle, the report said, but when the RCMP corporal learned of what happened and called the officer to order him to take the woman home, he did so.
A written decision in the incident was not delivered until 2014. The Mountie admitted to the allegations, got a reprimand and lost seven days of pay, CBC reported.
“It’s a gross abuse of power,” Manitoba Grand Chief Derek Nepinak told the network.
Drug bust
A 34-year-old man from OCN is facing charges after The Pas RCMP executed a search warrant on Dec. 30. The man was charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking and possession of the proceeds of crime after police found one kilogram of pot and more than $15,000 in cash while executing the warrant in OCN.
The man was released from custody. A 27-year-old woman from OCN was arrested during the raid and released without charges.
Fleeting freedom
A 23-year-old man from Shamattawa was one of two men who escaped from custody for about an hour Jan. 4 before being tracked down by Dauphin RCMP.
Courtney Shermen Miles of Shamattawa and 20-year-old Skylar Walter Cook from Shoal River First Nation were being transferred between buildings at the Dauphin Correctional Centre around 7 p.m. that day when they managed to flee, scaling a fence and running away from prison grounds.
Manitoba Corrections and RCMP had them
back in custody in about
an hour.
Miles and Cook, who were being held on charges including robbery, mischief and possession of a weapon, were charged with escaping lawful custody and were scheduled to appear in court on Jan. 5.
