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By Sheldon Spackman

April 2025 Incident

Pair charged in alleged home invasion involving firearm scheduled for trial

Nov 10, 2025 | 8:20 AM

Two people charged in a central Alberta home invasion involving a firearm this spring have been scheduled for trial.

Robert Ian Blackwell, 35, of Red Deer, and Brittney Danielle Goulden, 34, a resident of Tomahawk, northeast Drayton Valley, are scheduled for trial in Leduc Court of Justice from March 17-20, 2026.

RCMP say it was April 19, 2025, when members in Drayton Valley responded to a complaint about a home invasion involving a firearm.

Mounties say the victim had to be transported to hospital.

While RCMP were gathering information about the first complaint, they were dispatched to a secondary complaint about a male who had been stabbed multiple times at a rural property in Brazeau County.

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Police ultimately determined the two events were related, and allegedly perpetrated by the same suspects.

As a result, a search warrant was executed at a home in Tomahawk, with Red Deer RCMP assisting to execute a second one in Red Deer.

The two suspects were arrested in Red Deer by the RCMP Emergency Response Team, without incident.

Both suspects were known to police who say both events were targeted, with no ongoing risk to the general public.

According to police, both victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries.

Robert Blackwell was charged with:

• Robbery with a firearm;
• Breaking and entering;
• Forcible confinement while using a firearm;
• Assault causing bodily harm (X3);
• Assault with a weapon (X3);
• Other firearm-related offences (x3);
• Other weapon-related offences (x8); and
• Failure to comply with court orders (X5).

Brittney Goulden was charged with:

• Robbery with a firearm;
• Breaking and entering;
• Forcible confinement while using a firearm;
• Assault causing bodily harm (X2);
• Assault with a weapon (X2); and
• Aggravated assault.

Blackwell and Goulden were brought before a justice of the peace and remanded into custody.

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