Resisting arrest, alcohol charges also laid against teen in case involving off-duty Mountie

Carolyn Ryan · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 11, 2025 7:02 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

A teen charged with assaulting an off-duty P.E.I. RCMP serviceman is besides facing charges of resisting apprehension and a fig of liquor-related offences, according to Chief Superintendent Kevin Lewis.

The 15-year-old antheral accused can't beryllium named nether provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act. 

At slightest portion of the incidental was captured successful footage by witnesses with cellphones, a state station's CCTV information system, and the assemblage cams worn by RCMP officers who came to their colleague's assistance, Lewis told CBC News connected Friday, a time aft the unit issued a quality merchandise astir the incident.

"Police officers are 24/7," helium said of the off-duty officer's actions. "There's an anticipation that we support nationalist information astatine each times — and if we witnesser an offence occurring oregon astir to occur, we person to intervene."

It each started astatine astir 6:30 p.m. connected April 1, erstwhile the off-duty serviceman smelled intoxicant portion lasting adjacent idiosyncratic wrong the state presumption successful New Haven, successful cardinal P.E.I. 

Lewis said the serviceman past watched the idiosyncratic permission the presumption and get into the driver's spot of a car. 

When helium went to speech to the driver, Lewis said the serviceman noticed some unfastened and sealed intoxicant successful the car and asked the operator to get out, presenting his ID and badge and identifying himself arsenic a constabulary officer.

Detaining the younker arsenic portion of probe of impaired driving, helium took the young antheral backmost into the state station.

"A 3rd enactment that was a rider successful the conveyance past enters a state presumption and causes a confrontation betwixt the constabulary serviceman and that individual," Lewis said. "At that constituent successful time, the detained younker past pushes the constabulary serviceman aggregate times…

"A conflict ensues betwixt the constabulary serviceman and the antheral youth, which goes extracurricular the state station, and the constabulary serviceman past attempts to further detain the idiosyncratic and support them connected the ground." 

Lewis said yet different bystander past tried to propulsion the off-duty Mountie disconnected the idiosyncratic helium was trying to arrest. 

"Again the [officer] tried to place themselves arsenic a constabulary serviceman and asked them to refrain from what they were doing." 

On-duty officers arrived soon to instrumentality over, helium said, starring to charges yet being laid.