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Surrey Mounties arrested a man on Sunday concerning threats a city councillor received by email earlier this month, the Now-Leader has learned. “He sent some threats in to me, about nine of them,” Coun. Brenda Locke said Tuesday. “He said that I shouldn’t live, and he talked about rape. It was pretty aggressive. “You can pretend it doesn’t, but it does bother you,” she said. “It’s all over the map.” Locke said it was “definitely” related to her work as a councillor. “He sent it here to city hall, to my email here, oh yeah, no, it’s definitely my work as a city councillor.” “It’s particularly sad because this city doesn’t normally behave this way. I’ve talked to other councillors, they didn’t see this in the past,” she said. “It’s very upsetting, actually. It’s a divided city and people will take their hostilities and their emotions out in ways that are highly inappropriate and this was definitely highly inappropriate.” Locke received an update from the investigating constable “pertaining to the threats” made against her on March 4. “On March 20, we arrested the suspect, and during a custodial statement
He said that I shouldn’t live, and he talked about rape. It was pretty aggressive. Coun. Brenda Locke
tity of any involved parties,” she said Tuesday. “I can confirm that the file number you provided does correspond to an ongoing Surrey RCMP investigation into threats.” “Yes, a suspect was arrested March 20 concerning a report received March 4, 2022,” Munn added. Coun. Jack Hundial, himself a target of death threats in 2020 via Facebook Messenger “that basically said to put a bullet in me,” said Tuesday Surrey Coun. Brenda Locke. (File photo: Lauren Collins) the messages aimed at Locke were “really nasty emails. “I do feel bad for her because she he admitted to sending the threatening City Hall. “The investigation is ongoing, and we doesn’t deserve it,” he said. email,” the message reads. “After the Locke echoed that. are in the process of writing a search custodial statement, we strongly be“Women in politics get treated very lieve that the suspect does not have the warrant for additional evidence.” Cpl. Vanessa Munn declined to pro- aggressively,” she said. “This isn’t the means or motivation to harm yourself. first time I’ve had aggression towards vide further details. The suspect was released from police me, that’s for sure. It doesn’t bother “Charges have not been laid and custody on an Undertaking with conme when people are aggressive but this therefore I am not able to confirm ditions not to contact you and not to attend your workplace, which included details of the investigation or the iden- one was over the top, for sure.”
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