Man wanted for homicides in Colchester County arrested in New Brunswick

CITYnews halifax / By Chris Hale

A man wanted on a Canada-wide arrest warrant in connection to two homicides in Colchester County has been arrested in New Brunswick.

On the evening of Dec. 19, Truro Police Service received information that a 27-year-old Truro man and a 25-year-old Pictou Landing First Nation man were taken to hospital with serious stab wounds.

Then on Dec. 21, shortly before noon, Mounties responded to a report of a man in medical distress at a home in Upper Onslow. Police said the 25-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Finally, on Dec. 22, emergency crews responded to a man in medical distress at a home on Lavinia Drive in Truro where a 27-year-old man was pronounced dead at the scene.

The Nova Scotia Medical Examiner Service ruled both those deaths as homicides which prompted a Canada-wide arrest warrant for 35-year-old Ronald Albert Canuel, of Bathurst.

On Wednesday evening, Mounties issued an update, saying Canuel was found and safely arrested in New Brunswick.