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Medicine Hat Police investigating Lethbridge Stormtrooper takedown

An external agency now has the responsibility of investigating a Lethbridge Police incident which has garnered world-wide attention.

On Monday, May 4th a woman suffered a minor injury when she was put into handcuffs in a parking lot while trying to promote a north side business on what is commonly known as Star Wars Day.

The woman was wearing a Stormtrooper costume and carrying a toy gun. Lethbridge Police had responded to a pair of 911 calls regarding someone in a costume holding a firearm.

LPS Chief Scott Woods notified the Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT), however the incident is outside their scope of responsibility.

Woods then contacted the Medicine Hat Police Service (MHPS) which has agreed to conduct their own independent investigation of the incident.

Lethbridge Police says once this investigation is completed by the MHPS, a public update will be provided.

The incident has grabbed headlines around the world in publications like TMZ and the New York Post.

Patrick Siedlecki
Patrick Siedlecki
Pat has been a mainstay in the CJOC News department from the time the station launched in 2007. He's been in the position of News Director since then and has been anchoring daily news casts as well as reporting and working behind the scenes. Community is important to him and keeping CJOC listeners and readers informed about what's happening across southern Alberta and beyond. Pat has been in radio broadcasting for the past 24 years, starting in Port Alberni on Vancouver Island in 1997 and then moving up island to Nanaimo for another few years before heading to Lethbridge in 2007. Pat grew up in the small Saskatchewan farming town of Foam Lake. After high school, he went to Western Academy Broadcasting College (WABC) in Saskatoon prior to moving to the island. Pat also spent several years broadcasting hockey in the BCHL as well as seven years as the radio voice of the Lethbridge Hurricanes in the WHL. Pat has been working at Cornerstone Funeral Home in Lethbridge as a Certified Life Celebrant and Funeral Assistant since 2016. News and sports have always been Pat's passion from the time he was a teenager and he's always been grateful to have had the opportunity to make that part of what's been a fun and long radio career!
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