BEAUVAL – Update: Hubert Cardinal was sentenced to 504 days in prison on May 11, 2023. Edwin Corrigal was sentenced to 10 days in jail in July, 2023.
Original story: Two men accused of threatening people with a shotgun and machete in a bar remain in custody.
Hubert Cardinal, 27, and Edwin Corrigal, 40, were arrested through a combined effort between Beauval RCMP and Meadow Lake RCMP Crime Reduction Team. The highly-trained RCMP CRT officers track chronic offenders, combat street-gang activity, and make arrests.
Corrigal and Cardinal were charged in connection with an incident where two men wearing masks and armed with a firearm and a machete threatened people in a bar in Beauval on Dec. 14, 2022.
Cardinal, of Canoe Lake, is charged with attempting to take a weapon from a police officer, assault of a police officer, resisting arrest, and two counts of failing to comply with a release order. Cardinal was remanded on a remand warrant and is back in Beauval circuit court on March 7. A remand warrant is issued to keep an accused in custody until his next court appearance and means he hasn’t had a show cause hearing.
Corrigal, of Prince Albert, was charged with possession of a prohibited weapon, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, possession of a shotgun knowing the serial number is removed, possession of a firearm while prohibited, possession of ammunition while prohibited, unsafe storage of a firearm, and possession of cocaine. Corrigal is back in Beauval circuit court on March 15. He has been denied bail.
Police say the incident wasn’t reported to them until Dec. 23, 2022. No one was injured.
RCMP officers launched an extensive investigation and identified the two suspects as Cardinal and Corrigal.
Meadow Lake RCMP CRT officers helped Beauval RCMP officers locate the two at a home on the 200 block of Primrose East on Canoe Lake Cree Nation. They found Corrigal in the backyard and he was arrested without incident.
Police say that Corrigal had a loaded sawed-off shotgun, machete, and seven individual bags of crack cocaine hidden in a plastic egg container, seven grams of crack cocaine wrapped in tin foil, about 11 grams of marijuana, and cash. Officers got a warrant to enter the house to search for Cardinal but he wasn’t there. Police increased their presence in the community as they searched for him.
On Jan. 15, police found Cardinal hiding under blankets in the back of a van in Beauval and arrested him.
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