Curtis Sagmoen scheduled for arraignment hearing in March

A lawyer appeared in Vernon provincial court on behalf of Curtis Sagmoen on Thursday morning.

The North Okanagan man was scheduled for an arraignment hearing on a charge of assaulting a peace officer.

The assault is alleged to have occurred on Oct. 29, 2020, in Spallumcheen.

On Thursday morning, the lawyer appearing on Sagmoen’s behalf requested that his arraignment hearing be postponed while Sagmoen’s lawyer has discussions with Crown counsel.

The case will be back in court on March 4 for an arraignment.

At that time, Sagmoen could enter a plea or elect how he wishes to be tried.

Sagmoen has captured public attention since the remains of missing 18-year-old Traci Genereaux were found on his family’s North Okanagan farm in 2017.

No one has been charged in relation to her death and Sagmoen has not been named as a suspect.

On October 21, just over a week before the alleged assault, police took an unusual step in issuing a public warning, telling people involved in the sex trade not to respond to any requests for service in the rural area where Sagmoen’s family property is located.

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The police warning said Sagmoen lived in the area and was under a probation order that required him not to have contact with people working in the sex trade.

Sagmoen has previously been convicted in three cases where the victims worked as escorts.

In June 2020, Sagmoen was sentenced to time served plus three years of probation for hitting a woman with a quad in 2017.

The assault with the quad occurred after Sagmoen invited the victim to a rural area to work as an escort.

In a separate 2017 incident, Sagmoen was found to have been wearing a disguise and brandishing a shotgun when he jumped out of the bushes, frightening the escort who he had invited to meet him and causing her to flee in fear.

In a third case, Sagmoen was convicted of assault.

– With files from Doyle Potenteau