A 42-year-old Trail man is facing five charges after a crash in the 1700 block of Columbia Avenue in East Trail, directly in front of the entrance to the Columbia River Skywalk.
RCMP say they responded to the incident early last Tuesday. The two occupants took off after the crash but officers tracked them down a short distance away.
Police say they believe the man was speeding and lost control. They also believe he assaulted and threatened a 24-year-old woman during the incident.
The man was arrested and released on several conditions and will be in court on Jan. 4.
Nathan Gordon, 42, is charged with assault with a weapon, dangerous driving, possession of a weapon, uttering threats, and breach of an undertaking.
Property recovered from stolen truck
RCMP found stolen property in a truck swiped overnight Wednesday-Thursday from the 700 block of Dickens Street in Warfield.
They say the truck’s owner located it in a ditch on Spokane Street in Rossland.
Police recovered a stolen electric snowblower, a goalie stick, an axe, and a jacket left behind by the truck thief.
If you might be the owner of one of those items, seen above, you’re asked to contact RCMP.
Spat over ‘Straight Pride’ sticker
RCMP say they received a complaint about a Krestova woman trying to place a “Straight Pride” sticker inside the window of a downtown Trail business. The building owner didn’t allow the woman to put it up and it was reported to police as a hate crime.
An officer spoke to the woman and told her that while it didn’t meet the Criminal Code definition of a hate crime, local businesses strongly supported the LGBTQ+ community.
The woman was upset her sticker was not allowed in the window and believed she had been discriminated against. The officer told her heterosexual white people are not a historically disenfranchised group, and that wasn’t possible to be discriminated against in the way she claimed.
“It is the job of heterosexual white people to tell other heterosexual white people when they are being racist, sexist, and discriminatory against minority groups,” Sgt. Mike Wicentowich said in a news release.