A man charged with the first-degree murder of a Ridge Meadows Mountie returns to Port Coquitlam Provincial Court next week.
On Tuesday, April 16, the judge adjourned the case against Nicholas Bellemare to April 26 at 9:45 a.m. at the request of Crown Counsel.
Bellemare, 26, has been at North Fraser Pretrial Centre in Port Coquitlam since last September in connection with the death of Const. Frederick “Rick” O’Brien and the attempted murder of Cpl. Colin Ryder.
The officers and a third Mountie were executing a search warrant relating to a drug investigation in Maple Ridge when they were shot in a condo tower on Glen Drive in Coquitlam.
O’Brien, a father of six, had served with the Ridge Meadows detachment for seven years before he was killed in the line of duty.
