An Alberta man is facing multiple assault, forcible confinement and other charges after being arrested twice in the same night at a hotel in northeastern Ontario last weekend.
Separate “violent incidents,” the first involving a 14-year-old boy and the other an “intimate partner” of the suspect, led to the charges being laid, James Bay Ontario Provincial Police said.
Police responded to the first assault call at the hotel on Railway Street in Cochrane, about 100 kilometres northeast of Timmins, at around 9 p.m. on Saturday night.
“An investigation revealed that a 14-year-old victim … had been assaulted and forcibly confined in a common area of the hotel,” investigators said in a news release on Thursday.
Police added the victim does not know the accused.
A 49-year-old man from Chestermere, Alberta was arrested and charged with forcible confinement and assault with a weapon.
He was released with conditions and scheduled to appear in a Cochrane court on a future date, …