A woman was held against her will by a man brandishing a weapon for one week in a tent, Yellowknife RCMP reported today.
The exact location of the tent wasn’t released, but RCMP stated it was on public land. The suspect was also out on bail for unknown other charges.
In the early morning hours of Wednesday, police received a report that a female victim had just escaped from a tent where she had been held against her will for the last week and assaulted by a male suspect with a weapon.
Officers from the Yellowknife detachment as well as members of the “G” Division Emergency Response Team located and attended the tent, where police were able to take the suspect into custody safely.
As a result, a 47-year-old male was charged with: forcible confinement, sexual assault with a weapon, failure to comply with release order, obstructing justice, overcoming resistance to the commission of an indictable offence.
The suspect appeared before a Justice of the Peace and was remanded into custody to appear in court on June 28 in Yellowknife.
Anyone who has information about this incident is asked to contact the Yellowknife RCMP at 867-669-1111 or Crime Stoppers at p3tips.com.
