Two Kamloops Mounties have been charged with assault resulting from two separate incidents earlier this year.
Const. Kevin Roy and Const. Ryan Sheremetta were charged Thursday and are expected to appear in Kamloops provincial court July 29.
Roy, a nine-month rookie, is alleged to have used excessive force in the arrests of a Kamloops man and woman in late January.
Sheremetta, a seven-year veteran, is accused of punching a man during a fight outside a Kamloops bar in March. He was off-duty at the time.
It is not the first time Sheremetta has been in the news.
Last year, the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP found Sheremetta was justified in the 2004 shooting death of Vanderhoof resident Kevin St. Arnaud.
The ruling came in spite of contradictory, inaccurate and misleading testimony given by Sheremetta at the 2007 coroner’s inquest into Arnaud’s death.
Sheremetta was never charged and maintained he had fired the three shots in self defence.
He has been reassigned to administrative duties pending the outcome of the assault charge, while Roy has been suspended without pay.
