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The suspect charged following a large Easter weekend police raid on a rural property east of Calgary will search bail subsequent month, his lawyer advised courtroom Thursday.
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Protection lawyer Kim Arial made a quick look in Calgary courtroom to schedule a Could 12 listening to for Richard Robert Mantha.
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Arial advised Justice Brandy Shaw that was the earliest date Crown prosecutor Rose Greenwood was accessible to carry a trial case.
However she mentioned if Greenwood can liberate time in her calendar, she would possibly search Mantha’s launch at an earlier date.
“I’ll proceed to debate with Ms. Greenwood whether or not there’s a risk of listening to it sooner,” Arial mentioned.
59-year-old man faces allegations that he assaulted three intercourse employees
Worry was arrested on April 6 when Calgary police, with the help of the RCMP, swooped on a property on Vale View Highway in Rocky View County.
Worry59, faces greater than a dozen prices associated to allegations he assaulted three intercourse employees.
He was initially charged final 12 months with sexually assaulting one girl, however a warrant was issued for his arrest when he failed to seem in courtroom in Strathmore in March.
Mantha appeared in courtroom by way of closed circuit tv from the Calgary Remand Heart the place he has been housed since his arrest two weeks in the past.
Police are tight-lipped concerning the large search of the property, which targeted on a retail area on the agricultural property that Worry by the house house owners. The police confirmed Worry lived within the outbuilding on the property.
The prolonged search on the property — about 20 kilometers from Calgary’s japanese metropolis limits and a brief distance south of the Trans-Canada Freeway — concerned forensics and canine models, with officers seen conducting grid searches and baggage of proof in unmarked throwing police automobiles.
Calgary Police Supt. Cliff O’Brien mentioned “hundreds” of displays was taken as proof of the property.
O’Brien confirmed cadaver canines have been used within the search. He famous that the police are “exclude nothing” and have a look at ongoing lacking individuals information associated to the case.
– With information from Michael Rodriguez
KMartin@postmedia.com
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