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By Bob Mackin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince George Citizen Two men charged with aggravated assault and break-and-enter after a grisly 2022 machete attack at a Prince George motel were acquitted Monday, March 3 in BC Supreme Court. In his oral verdict, Justice John Gibb-Carsley ruled the Crown did not prove its case against Dakota Rayn Keewatin, 31, and Kerridge Andrew Lowley, 49, beyond reasonable doubt. They had been accused of committing the crimes at unit 255 of the Econo Lodge City Centre Inn on Aug. 11, 2022. The Crown alleged the incident began with an exchange about a drug debt outside a Tim Hortons between Arlen Chalifoux and Keewatin. Keewatin, in the passenger seat of a pickup truck driven by Lowley, asked when his money would be repaid. Chalifoux… <\/p>\n

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By Bob Mackin, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Prince George Citizen Two men charged with aggravated assault and break-and-enter after a grisly 2022 machete attack at a Prince George motel were acquitted Monday, March 3 in BC Supreme Court. In his oral verdict, Justice John Gibb-Carsley ruled the Crown did not prove its case against Dakota Rayn Keewatin, 31, and Kerridge Andrew Lowley, 49, beyond reasonable doubt. They had been accused of committing the crimes at unit 255 of the Econo Lodge City Centre Inn on Aug. 11, 2022. The Crown alleged the incident began with an exchange about a drug debt outside a Tim Hortons between Arlen Chalifoux and Keewatin. Keewatin, in the passenger seat of a pickup truck driven by Lowley, asked when his money would be repaid. Chalifoux... <\/p>\n

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