By NanaimoNewsNOW Staff

Discontent City residents charged with assault in connection with machete attack: RCMP

Sep 27, 2018 | 4:41 PM

NANAIMO — RCMP say two tent city residents are in custody, charged with assault after allegedly threatening people with a variety of weapons, including machetes.

Nanaimo RCMP said the two men were arrested on Sept. 25 in connection with an August incident on the top level of a parkade at Port Place, across from Discontent City.

Police said Shane Edwards Steinhauer, 42, and William Robert Carrigan, 55, confronted two cars full of people after someone allegedly shone a laser pointer from the top of the parkade into the illegal encampment.

Allegedly armed with machetes, a large butcher knife and a baseball bat, police said the pair and several tent city residents confronted the onlookers, eventually vandalizing the vehicles while shouting threats.

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Police noted Carrigan had a small axe tucked into the back of his pants when he was arrested.

Both men are charged with assault with a weapon and possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose and remain in custody.

Court records showed Steinhauer escaped jail time, instead receiving a conditional sentence for assault causing bodily harm in relation to a July 2016 offence. Carrigan was convicted for a variety of driving and harassment related offences since 2008.

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