An RCMP cruiser. Image: staff photo
Four people have been charged related to a human trafficking investigation in Yarmouth.
On January 22, Yarmouth Rural RCMP received a report of a sexual assault at a property in Brooklyn. While investigating they learned one person was sexually assaulted and a second was assaulted with the intent to intimidate them for their involvement in an ongoing judicial process related to a human trafficking investigation.
On Friday the Southwest Nova Major Crime Unit and RCMP Emergency Response team arrested three men and a woman involved in the assaults, and executed a search warrant at the Brooklyn property.
The four individuals are facing the following charges:
A 49-year-old Yarmouth County man was charged with:
- Unlawful Confinement
- Sexual Assault in Which Other Persons Were Also a Party
- Sexual Assault
- Intimidation of a Justice System Participant (two counts)
- Obstructing Justice (two counts)
- Criminal Harassment
- Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- Uttering Threats (two counts)
- Assault
A 27-year-old Yarmouth County man was charged with:
- Unlawful Confinement
- Sexual Assault in Which Other Persons Were Also a Party
- Sexual Assault
- Intimidation of a Justice System Participant
- Obstructing Justice
- Criminal Harassment
- Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- Careless Use of a Firearm
- Uttering Threats
- Assault
A 48-year-old Yarmouth County man was charged with:
- Unlawful Confinement
- Sexual Assault in Which Other Persons Were Also a Party
- Sexual Assault
- Intimidation of a Justice System Participant
- Obstructing Justice
- Criminal Harassment
- Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- Administering a Noxious Substance
- Assault
- Trafficking in a Substance
- Uttering threats
A 35-year-old Yarmouth County woman was charged with:
- Unlawful Confinement
- Sexual Assault in Which Other Persons Were Also a Party
- Sexual Assault
- Intimidation of a Justice System Participant
- Obstructing Justice
- Criminal Harassment
- Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized
- Administering a Noxious Substance
- Assault
- Trafficking in a Substance
The RCMP say they were held in custody and appeared in Yarmouth Provincial Court today.
They add the investigation is ongoing and a publication ban on further information has been ordered by the courts.
