Boy charged in arson that gutted B.C. lieutenant-governor’s home
Thursday, February 5, 2009
CBC News [British Columbia]
A 13-year-old boy has been charged with arson, breaking and entering, and theft following a fire last weekend at the private home of B.C. Lt.-Gov. Steven Point, police said Thursday.
The RCMP arrested the boy, from a First Nations community in Chilliwack, B.C., on Wednesday evening, Cpl. Peter Thiessen said.
The arrest was made after members of the community assisted police in their investigation, Thiessen said.
Police are still investigating the motive for the arson but said it’s not political.
“There is no political component to this.… There are some other possible motives that come into play, but at this point, it would be premature to comment on that,” Thiessen told CBC News in a telephone interview.
Point and his family were not at their home on the Sto:lo First Nation reserve near Chilliwack when the arson took place Sunday morning.
No one was injured in the fire.
The RCMP have since increased security for Point and his family.
The fire caused considerable heat and smoke damage in the home and little was salvageable, although the structure was intact, police said at the time.
Point, a lawyer, former provincial court judge and former grand chief of the Sto:lo Tribal Council, was appointed British Columbia’s first aboriginal lieutenant-governor in September 2007.
Before his appointment, Point was head of the B.C. Treaty Commission.
Point has four children and 11 grandchildren.
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