MEDICINE HAT, Alta. – Tamara Lich, a key organizer of the “Freedom Convoy,” has been arrested in Alberta on a Canada-wide warrant for one rely of failing to regulate to a launch order, police say.
The Ottawa Police Service talked about Tuesday that it sought the warrant for Lich’s arrest and that it was bringing her to Ottawa, the place she is scheduled to look in court docket docket Wednesday.
The Medicine Hat Police Service talked about in its private assertion that it arrested Lich on Monday. She was held in custody and on Tuesday morning appeared in court docket docket, the place she was ordered to be remanded for six days, it talked about.
Ottawa police will transport Lich “inside the subsequent day,” Medicine Hat police talked about.
Police did not reply questions on which bail circumstances Lich was accused of breaching, or when and the place the circumstances had been breached.
Eric Granger, one in every of Lich’s authorized professionals, had confirmed the arrest in an electronic message Monday night time, saying that they had been pending extra particulars and the arrest seemed to be related to Lich’s bail circumstances.
Lich lives in Medicine Hat and traveled to Ottawa for the massive protest that overtook the capital’s downtown streets for better than three weeks in February.
A select initially denied Lich bail after her arrest by means of the convoy protest, nevertheless she was launched in March after a consider of the court docket docket willpower.
Lich and fellow protest organizer Chris Barber are collectively accused of mischief, obstructing police, counseling others to commit mischief and intimidation.
She was launched with a protracted guidelines of circumstances, along with a ban from all social media and an order to not “assist one thing related to the Freedom Convoy.”
“We aren’t acutely aware of one thing which may have prompted this and are surprised by this development given the present bail consider listening to in Ontario the place Ms. Lich’s constructive file for complying collectively together with her circumstances was one motive why a couple of of her circumstances had been relaxed in the mean time,” Granger wrote in an electronic message.
In Might, an Ontario select dominated Lich may keep on bail until her trial after a Crown prosecutor argued she’d violated one in every of her bail circumstances by agreeing to easily settle for an award for her administration by means of the Ottawa protest, and should be despatched once more behind bars to attend for her court docket docket look.
Ontario Superior Courtroom Justice Kevin Phillips talked about he made his willpower on account of Lich had adopted her bail circumstances, her surety supervised her properly and he or she’d already had a “model of jail,” which he talked about lowered her hazard to reoffend.
Phillips amended her launch circumstances to allow her to go to Ottawa, nevertheless not the downtown core. He maintained the ban on Lich’s entry to social media, saying that prohibiting such entry stays warranted.
This report by The Canadian Press was first revealed June 28, 2022.
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