A large number of assault investigations took place in the Battlefords over the past week, several of which resulted in charges. (file/battlefordsNOW Staff)

By battlefordsNOW Staff

Serious arrests

RCMP Report Pt. 1: Missing person, multiple assault arrests

Apr 13, 2022 | 4:52 PM

Battlefords RCMP are asking for public assistance in located 39-year-old Carol Arnault.

The North Battleford woman was last seen on April 10 within the City. She’s around 5’0″, with an average build, brown eyes and short, brown hair dyed with red and green.

Police are asking anyone with information on Arnault’s whereabouts to contact the detachment. This is only active missing person’s investigation out of six reports from the past week.

Assault cases

Police charged a man on multiple criminal offences on April 6 who was already in custody for another crime.

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Members received a report of a robbery at a business on Railway Avenue East that evening, where the male suspect was reported to have concealed property from the store and when confronted by staff, he pushed the employee down and fled the store. The suspect was later identified as 25-year-old local Ray Bird, who was arrested the following evening for reportedly shoplifting at a business on 100^th St.

Sgt. Neil Tremblay said surveillance footage and witness statements helped to identify the accused.

“He committed another theft at another business,” Tremblay said. “It was the same investigator, so when Bird was arrested, he was able to confirm it was the same individual.”

Bird is charged with robbery and breach of probation and was remanded into custody and made his first court appearance on April 8.

The detachment dealt with 52 total assault investigations, resulting in several arrests, including one stemming from a 911 call. Members found a man had assaulted and choked the caller at a residence on the 1400 block of 104^th St. early in the morning on April 8.

Shortly after, 25-year-old Taylor Starchief was arrested and remanded into custody on assault, uttering threats, choking to overcome resistance and unsafe storage of a firearm. He appeared in court on Monday.

Other assault cases include:

• Police arrested a 29-year-old male on April 7 at a residence on the 1900 block of St Laurent Drive. A woman in her early 20s was found with minor injuries to her mouth, but no medical attention was required and the accused was charged with assault and two counts of failing to comply with a release order.
• A 27-year-old male was arrested on the 1800 block of 93^rd St. shortly before midnight on April 7. The suspect reported struck the occupant of the home and refused to leave for a time. He was arrested for assault, uttering threats, unlawfully staying in a dwelling and mischief.
• Thirty-one-year-old Adam Wright was arrested after reportedly forcing his way into a home on the 1400 block of 111th St. on Sunday, then assaulting a woman known to him and taking her vehicle. He faces assault, theft of a truck, mischief and uttering threats and appeared in court on Monday.
• On April 9, a 44-year-old man was arrested after reportedly getting into an argument and brandished a machete at another male at a residence north of Cochin. Noe one was struck or injured and the man was charged with assault with a weapon.
• At another residence north of Cochin, a 21-year-old-male was arrested for damaging property and assaulting one of the occupants. He’s charged with mischief, assault and failing to comply with a release order.

Anyone with information on any incident can contact the Battlefords RCMP detachment, 310-RCMP or Crime Stoppers.

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