First 61 Stanley Cup riot charges laid

Almost six months after the Stanley Cup riot rocked downtown Vancouver, B.C.’s Crown counsel has approved the first charges. On October 31, the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) recommended 163 charges against 60 individuals. On November 30, VPD announced that the counsel approved 61 charges against 25 people.

“We are now another step closer to holding suspected rioters accountable for their actions on June 15th,” said VPD Inspector Les Yeo.

Inspector Yeo, who heads up the Integrated Riot Investigation Team said, “We are very encouraged by the approval of these 61 charges and we will continue to work closely with the special prosecution team as even more charges are expected in the coming days and weeks.”

“The Integrated Riot Investigation Team would like to acknowledge the special prosecution team that has been hard at work reviewing Crown reports for the first 60 cases,” he added. “Having seen the incredible amount of work that went into the investigation on the front end, I realize what this Crown team was up against when we delivered the 163 charges for approval. Each report on each suspected rioter was well over 500 pages in length.”

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A total of 61 charges have been laid, including three counts of arson, following the Stanley Cup riot in June 2011

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