Curtis Sagmoen (Photo credit: RCMP)

By Kevin Rothwell

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Sagmoen arraignment hearing bumped again

Mar 25, 2021 | 10:48 AM

An agent appearing for Curtis Sagmoen in Vernon provincial court Thursday (March 25) had his case put over to April 8 for an arraignment hearing.

Those hearings are for an accused to plead guilty or not guilty.

Arraignment chart (photo / Provincial Court of B.C)

The case has been moved multiple times, however an agent who appeared for Sagmoen’s legal counsel, Lisa Jean Helps, stated that “defense has received an unsealed I.T.O. warrant and will be ready to proceed with the arraignment in two weeks.”

An I.T.O. or ‘Information To Obtain,’ is a document filed by a police officer to a judge seeking authorization to obtain a search warrant. The document is accompanied by an affidavit of the officer, which is sworn to be true, and lists out the reasons the officer is seeking the search warrant.

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A judge reviews the ITO and the affidavit, and decides whether or not to issue the search warrant.

Sagmoen, 40, who has past convictions for abuse of sex trade workers, is accused of assaulting a police officer Oct. 29, 2020 at a location in Spallumcheen with no other details provided.

The accused is currently under court orders not to have any contact with sex workers after he was convicted of assaulting a woman by running into her with an ATV near his home on Salmon River Road in 2017.

Police issued a warning for sex workers to stay away from his property in October, 2020.

Sagmoen is not in custody.