The Edmonton Police Service has arrested the seventh person charged in the death of Tiki Brook-Lyn Laverdiere.
Saskatchewan RCMP said Nikita Sandra Cook, 31, of the Onion Lake Cree Nation, was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for first-degree murder and kidnapping.
Laverdiere, 25, was reported missing on May 1 after travelling from Edmonton to North Battleford, Sask., to attend the funeral of Tristen Cook-Buckle — another homicide victim.
Police said in June that Laverdiere’s death was the result of foul play, and her remains were found outside the city on July 11.
Nikita Sandra Cook was taken into custody in Edmonton on Aug. 15. She is scheduled to make her first North Battleford provincial court appearance on Aug. 19.
Four other women — Soaring Eagle Whitstone, 33, Shayla Orthner, 27, Danita Thomas, 32, and Nicole Cook, 36 — have been charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping, improperly interfering with a human body and vehicle theft.
Nicole Cook is Tristen Cook-Buckle’s mother.
Two men — Jesse Sangster, 23, and Brent Checkosis, 18, are accused of accessory after the fact to murder and theft of a motor vehicle. Checkosis is also charged with improperly interfering with a human body.
An eighth person was recently arrested in relation to the ongoing homicide investigation. North Battleford’s Mavis Quinn Takakenew, 55, is facing a charge of being an accessory after the fact to murder.
-With files from Ryan Kessler
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