Ibrahim Ali, 25, who was arrested with Nicole Vrban Sunday in the B.C. Interior community of Creston, has been charged with dangerous driving causing death and failing to stop at an accident causing bodily harm. Court documents say Ali – a reported UN-gang associate – sued the province and Corrections Canada for assaults behind bars at the hands of rival gang members.
VANCOUVER – A South Asian man is facing vehicular homicide charges after he and a young woman, were found at a motel in Creston, B.C., after RCMP received a call about two suspicious people who had booked into a motel in the Kootenay town.
Ibrahim Ali, 25, who was arrested with Nicole Vrban, 18, Sunday in the B.C. Interior community of Creston, has been charged with dangerous driving causing death and failing to stop at an accident causing bodily harm.
Creston RCMP was alerted after the pair showed up at a local hotel, the Skimmerhorn Inn, around 1:30 a.m. covered in mud and blood. They claimed to have been involved in a single-vehicle crash.
The owner of the Skimmerhorn Inn said the pair arrived late at night and admitted to having been in a car accident. They were both covered in mud, and the man was also covered in blood, according to the inn owner.
“He had blood on his top forehead and she had speckles of mud all over her face,” said Shelly Haller, who works at the Skimmerhorn Inn. “They wanted a room, just for the two of them. They said they just were in an accident.”
The couple tried to flee in a taxi after officers questioned them the next morning, but police tracked them down.
Staff found the story suspicious, so they called RCMP. Officers believed the names being provided were false, and left to further assess the situation.
Mounties later returned to arrest the suspects after identifying the two as having an outstanding warrant for arrest, but the pair had already left the hotel.
Vrban and Ali were quickly located at another motel in the area, and were arrested without incident. Both were out on bail at the time of the crash, and warrants were out for their arrests.
Vrban was charged in January with robbery and assault with a weapon for an alleged knife attack on a man in Vancouver. Ali was charged in February with resisting or obstructing a peace officer and driving while prohibited.
Court documents say Ali – a reported UN-gang associate – sued the province and Corrections Canada for assaults behind bars at the hands of rival gang members, reported CBC News.
Their charges are unrelated to the hit-and run-crash in Burnaby that killed 25-year-old Emily Sheane last week.
Sheane, an employee of Joe Fortes restaurant in Vancouver, was driving home from work when she was broadsided by a Range Rover that sped through a red light on Wednesday.
She died instantly.
Mounties said the luxury SUV was speeding at 100 kilometres an hour when it T-boned Sheane’s much smaller car.
Investigators said the Range Rover was “obtained fraudulently” but wasn’t stolen. No other information on the vehicle was released.
