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Prime suspect in Vancouver riot arrested

By: Staff Writer

Posted: 09/27/2012 1:00 AM

VANCOUVER -- Investigators from Vancouver have arrested their No. 1 suspect in last year's Stanley Cup riot after tracking his movements through Manitoba, Newfoundland and finally Saskatchewan.

Vancouver police listed 15 people as suspects in the beating of a Good Samaritan the night of the riot and had previously identified 14 of them.

Now, the department says it has arrested the final suspect in the beating -- 24-year-old Jonathan Stephen Mahoney, who was arrested at his workplace in Lanigan, Sask., Tuesday.

Mahoney is in custody and is expected to return to Vancouver soon on charges of participating in a riot, assault, assault with a weapon and mischief.

Insp. Laurence Rankin says Mahoney was living in Vancouver at the time of the riot, but has since moved to Manitoba, back to his Conception Bay, N.L., hometown, then to Saskatchewan, where he was working at a potash mine.

-- The Canadian Press

Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition September 27, 2012 A9