Police are looking for a suspect after a man was hospitalized after being assaulted on the weekend at a local motel.
Kamloops RCMP Const. Crystal Evelyn says police were called at about 11 p.m. Sunday night to the Acadian Motor Inn on Columbia Street. She says a man was found in a room with injuries to his head and body.
Evelyn says surveillance showed the victim was being chased and was hit with a blunt object by another man. She says the victim did not cooperate with police.
A suspect is being described by police as being a white man who is about five-feet-eight-inches tall with a heavier build and short, brown hair. He was wearing a white, checkered button-up shirt, a dark-coloured hoodie, and blue jeans when the attack happened, and he left the scene with two women in an older red minivan with no hubcaps.
Anyone with information is asked to call police.
This was one of about 338 calls to service for Kamloops RCMP between Friday and Monday morning, Evelyn says.
Assault Reported in Downtown Kamloops Saturday
Police say a man suffered head injuries on Saturday after an assault in part of downtown.
Evelyn says it happened at about 10 p.m. at the corner of Seymour Street and 4th Avenue. She says a man was being treated for head injuries when Mounties showed up.
The suspect was described as being a man with red hair and a beard, who was reportedly unhappy with the victim’s presence in the area. Evelyn says the assault happened on the 400-block of Seymour Street before the victim was found on the street corner.
Anyone with details is asked to call police.
Police Seize Fake Firearms, Bear Spray in Batchelor Heights Traffic Stop
Two people were arrested after a traffic stop led to weapons and drugs being seized in Batchelor Heights.
On Saturday night, at about 11:30 p.m., police were working a roadblock in the 2000-block of Lac Du Bois when a vehicle tried to make a U-turn are drive off. Evelyn says police stopped the vehicle, which had stolen license plates, and the driver was determined to have no insurance or license.
Police seized two fake firearms, drugs and bear spray from the vehicle after the occupants were arrested. Details on what drugs were seized are unclear.
The driver of that vehicle now has a court date pending, and was ticketed for not having a license or insurance.
Impaired Driver Caught Going 64km/h Over Speed Limit on Highway 1
Kamloops Mounties caught a driver who was over the limit and driving way over the limit on Sunday evening.
It happened just after 6 p.m., when a driver was caught going 64 kilometres over the speed limit on the Trans-Canada Highway, near the weigh scales west of Copperhead Drive.
Evelyn says a vehicle that matched the description came back on the highway is the opposite direction about 30 minutes later. She says he was pulled over and had his vehicle impounded for excessive speeding. He failed a breathalyzer test after that and was given a three-month driving ban and an extra one-month impoundment of his vehicle.
Editor’s Note: This story previously stated the impaired driver was travelling on the wrong side of the divided highway, when in fact the vehicle was on the opposite side of the highway from where the officer was running radar. This error has been corrected.
