RICHMOND – An Indo-Canadian man from Richmond is the latest among five suspected rioters – including one woman from Surrey – who have been formally charged.
The 26-year-old Roneil Kumar was charged last Thursday, according to the Integrated Riot Investigation Team, with participating in a riot and mischief.
Crown has now formally charged 57 rioters with 153 criminal offences in connection to violence and mayhem that broke out last June in downtown Vancouver following the Vancouver Canucks’ Game 7 loss in the Stanley Cup finals.
Vancouver Police have recommended charges be laid against about 70 more people, but those have yet to be approved by prosecutors.
The other charges approved were against Ariel Elizabeth Harrison, 19,from Surrey, is charged with participating in a riot and mischief. Andrew Glenn Cuthbert, 20, from Maple Ridge, who is charged with arson, two counts of mischief and participating in a riot; Christian John Dougherty, 19, of Prince George, charged with rioting and mischief and Fernando Bernabe, 20, of Burnaby, charged with rioting and two counts of mischief.
Coquitlam’s Ryan Dickinson, 20, is the only rioter sentenced so far. He pleaded guilty to participating in a riot and was sentenced to 17 months in jail recently.
