Cuba Cops

• VPD officer who engaged in ‘sexual activity’ with high school student in Cuba demoted

  Const. Mark Simms, who was in the country off-duty, was charged with sexual assault in 2018 but eventually acquitted of any criminal offence.

  Crime

  Nov 25, 2022
  
• Disciplinary hearing of B.C. police officers detained in Cuba to be held in July

  One of the officers was acquitted of sexual assault after being held in the country for eight months. The other had been held as a witness.

  Crime

  Jun 12, 2020
  
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• B.C. police officers detained in Cuba still facing misconduct investigation

  The two police officers acquitted in a sexual assault case in Cuba could still face discipline at home in B.C.

  Jan 6, 2019
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• B.C. police officers detained in Cuba for 10 months return home

  The officers were detained over allegations that one of them had sexually assaulted a 17-year-old Ontario girl.

  Crime

  Jan 5, 2019
• Family, friends of teen accuser in Cuban sex assault case speak out

  For the first time, the family of a teen girl who says she was sexually assaulted by a B.C. police officer in Cuba is speaking out.

  Crime

  Nov 22, 2018
• B.C. police officers stranded in Cuba ‘close to the finish line,’ but not safe yet: Lawyer

  A pair of Metro Vancouver police officers stranded in Cuba have been cleared of sexual assault charges, but aren't free yet.

  Nov 16, 2018
• B.C. cops detained in Cuba for 8 months acquitted on sex assault charges

  The Vancouver and Port Moody police officers have been detained on the island country since March.

  Canada

  Nov 15, 2018
• ‘Somebody… knows the truth,’ pleads sister of B.C. cop accused of sex assault in Cuba

  The two officers have been held on the island country for seven months over allegations one of them sexually assaulted a 17-year-old girl.

  Oct 12, 2018
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• B.C. cops held in Cuba on sexual assault allegation being denied justice, says Vancouver reverend

  The officers originally travelled to the island country back in March and have been detained there since over allegations of sexual assault.

  Crime

  Sep 30, 2018