A Colony Farm Forensic Psychiatric Hospital resident facing robbery and weapons charges is expected to enter a plea in Alberta Provincial Court in Grande Prairie later this month.
Clayton Duquette, 35, went missing from Colony Farm on New Year's Day. Less than three weeks later he was in custody in Grande Prairie, facing 17 criminal charges including five counts of break and enter, two counts of robbery, six counts of weapons-related offences and four counts of property obtained by crime - three of which were vehicles.
Another Colony Farm resident who went missing the same day, Martin George Chambers, was identified as a "person of interest" in connection with the incidents by the Grande Prairie RCMP. Chambers returned to Colony Farm on Jan. 13.
According to Grande Prairie RCMP on the night of Jan. 3 a man entered a local Shoppers Drug Mart and demanded drugs. On the afternoon of Jan. 9 a man with a similar description entered a restaurant and brandished a gun at an employee; he then walked behind the counter and took money out of the till.
Duquette was arrested later that evening. He remains in custody in Alberta and will next appear in court on Feb. 22.
