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By Sheldon Spackman

Jan. 27, 2022

Sentencing next month for woman charged in beating, kidnapping and robbery incident

Dec 13, 2021 | 12:54 PM

Sentencing is due to take place next month for one of three people charged in a kidnapping, robbery and assault incident in central Alberta last year.

Amber Loretta Knickle, 22, is scheduled for sentencing in Wetaskiwin provincial court on Jan. 27, 2022.

Knickle is charged with robbery in the Sept. 2020 incident, which Ponoka RCMP say began during the early morning hours of Sept. 7, 2020.

Mounties’ investigation revealed that a 22-year-old male victim from Slave Lake, AB had been chatting with a woman online for about a year before agreeing to meet her.

Police say the male got into a vehicle — already determined to be stolen — with the female in Ponoka and was assaulted by two unknown males, one of whom had a gun.

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Over a lengthy period of time, RCMP say the victim was driven to several banks and forced to provide his banking information in order for withdrawals to be made from his accounts. The victim’s truck and cell phone were also stolen and he was eventually dropped off in Blackfalds.

Then on Sept. 16, 2020, Mounties located a stolen vehicle in Gasoline Alley and arrested two of the suspects, who were identified as Chasetin Jon Arthur Morin and Jared Michael McLeod.

Morin was sentenced on Feb. 18, 2021 to 195 days in jail, satisfied by time served, after pleading guilty to flight from a peace officer. McLeod, meanwhile, saw his charges stayed in April of this year, meaning legal proceedings have halted on his matters regarding the incident.

The vehicle seizure resulted in RCMP recovering an imitation firearm, loaded shotgun, ammunition, methamphetamine, and at least 61 pieces of miscellaneous stolen identity documents.

Knickle was later located and arrested on Sept. 18, 2021.