The Alberta Justice Special Prosecutions branch is handling a case involving multiple Calgary police officers facing charges including harassment, bribery and breach of trust.
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The prosecutor is proceeding by direct indictment for all of the accused, which means the case will go directly to trial without any preliminary inquiry.
A trial date has yet to be set.
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A lengthy investigation into a woman’s ex-common-law husband found he hired a retired Calgary police officer, who then hired active members of the Calgary Police Service to follow her and report her activity back to him.
In August 2014, a woman involved in a divorce battle came forward to police with concerns her ex-husband had hired a private investigator’s firm to follow her activities.
The owner of the private investigator’s firm is a retired officer, Stephen Walton. He was charged in June with criminal harassment, bribery of officers, improper storage of a firearm and perjury. His wife, Heather Naomi Walton, who was a civilian member of the Calgary Police Service until 2003 was also charged in the case.
Forty-seven-year-old Anthony Braile, a 21-year member of the service, was also charged but had already been dismissed on an unrelated matter.
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Officers Bryan Morton, 32, and Bradford McNish, 58, are also charged in the investigation and were suspended with pay in August 2015.
It’s alleged the serving members charged in the case accessed internal police databases hundreds of times to follow, watch and harass the victim.
Kenneth Robert Carter, 65, is the victim’s ex-husband who allegedly hired the private investigation firm. He has been charged with criminal harassment and perjury.
With files from Erika Tucker and Jill Croteau