{"id":24805,"date":"2014-09-04T22:05:25","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T14:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=24805"},"modified":"2014-09-04T18:53:45","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T10:53:45","slug":"travis-vader-found-not-guilty-of-uttering-threat-to-police-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/09\/04\/travis-vader-found-not-guilty-of-uttering-threat-to-police-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Travis Vader found not guilty of uttering threat to police officer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Travis Vader. Photo from castanet.net.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

EDMONTON\u2014Travis Vader has been found not guilty of uttering a threat to a police officer while in custody at the Edmonton Remand Centre.<\/p>\n

The officer had alleged that Vader said he would \u201cfind him and kill him\u201d once he was free.<\/p>\n

However, a provincial court judge ruled Wednesday that it had not been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Vader made the threat.<\/p>\n

Vader said that police were mad at him for filing a lawsuit against them.<\/p>\n

Vader had been facing first-degree murder charges in the slaying of two seniors who vanished almost four years ago, but those charges were stayed just a few weeks before the case was set to go to trial.<\/p>\n

Lyle McCann and his wife, Marie, both in their 70s, were last seen alive as they fuelled up their motorhome in St. Albert, a bedroom community northwest of Edmonton, in July 2010.<\/p>\n

Police discovered the charred remains of their motorhome but their bodies have never been found.<\/p>\n

Vader has been in custody since July 2010 and is scheduled to have a trial this fall on various unrelated charges including drug trafficking and weapons offences.<\/p>\n

He has filed two lawsuits, one claiming RCMP and justice officials kept him in custody on trumped-up charges until he was arrested in 2012 and charged in the deaths of the McCanns.<\/p>\n

The other lawsuit alleges malicious prosecution and that Mounties botched the murder case from the beginning.<\/p>\n

None of the allegations in the lawsuits has been proven in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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