Women charged with assaulting Eckville area woman, stealing her vehicle to face preliminary hearing

Two women charged after an Eckville area woman was assaulted at gunpoint last fall will face a preliminary hearing later this year.

It was just before 9 a.m. on Oct. 23, 2019 when Sylvan Lake RCMP responded to a rural property where two women had been dropped off by a man driving a stolen truck.

One of the owners of the rural property drove out to where the women were hiding in a ditch when one of them pulled her from her vehicle and began punching, kicking and threatening her while pointing a firearm at her face.

The suspects fled in the victim’s vehicle to Red Deer where they crashed into multiple vehicles in the city before being arrested.