Ken Hill, Entrepeneur: Confirmed
The major media has finally reported Ken Hill's identity, weeks after the arrest warrant was issued:
Prominent Six Nations businessman Ken Hill has been arrested and charged with two counts of assault in connection with a fracas on a Caledonia street June 4.
Hill, 47, senior supply and marketing officer and 10 per cent shareholder in Ohsweken-based cigarette manufacturer Grand River Enterprises Six Nations Ltd., was arrested by the OPP in Cayuga yesterday morning without incident.
He will appear in Cayuga court July 19.
Hill is one of six people named in a batch of warrants issued for various charges by the OPP following three violent incidents around the native-occupied Douglas Creek Estates June 9.
An OPP spokesman said yesterday the charges against Hill relate to a pushing and shoving incident on Braemar Avenue between native protesters and Caledonia residents the night of June 4. There were no injuries.
The altercation at the barricade was sparked when an OPP vehicle which made a wrong turn onto the Sixth Line -- an agreed upon no-go zone for police -- was surrounded by natives and the officers inside were ticketed for trespassing.
Caledonia residents rushed to their side of the barricades and an altercation followed.
OPP spokesman Constable Dennis Harwood said Hill was arrested "at a Cayuga business" just after 7 a.m.
The report says Hill was arrested at a business location, while I was told it was a wedding. I doubt it matters much which.
Curious what business is open at 7am, though. Maybe he was picking up a pack of GRE smokes at the local 24-hour convenience store.
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Great Post.
For more info on Caledonia - check out www.CaledoniaWakeUpCall.com
Posted by: Gary McHale at June 22, 2006 11:22 AM
There are some items screaming for attention here, Angry.
1) Who in their right mind would allow a DMZ over a piece of disputed land in a subdivision?
2) Who in God's name allowed this to be a no police zone? Last I heard, they were supposed to have access to do their jobs.
3) The police were ticketed for accidentally trespassing in the DMZ?!?! Yet there is no legal action when passersby/media, etc are attacked and robbed?
Posted by: Dagny Taggart at June 22, 2006 12:25 PM
" an agreed upon no-go zone for police"
Interesting.
Posted by: virgil at June 22, 2006 02:45 PM
The importance of this has been exaggerated. The OPP and Six Nations Police have 17 years of experience working together well. At any normal time that people on sixth line were at risk, they would have been helped by the nearest officers. It has always been like that. Now it's just more difficult for OPP, so they're announcing to the community so they know who will answer their calls. However, it doesn't appear that there have been many.
Posted by: at June 25, 2006 01:05 AM
 
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