‘Relentless’ Nanaimo property offender arrested

NANAIMO — In and out of jail throughout his adult life, an offender well known to police and maligned by local retailers was handcuffed Thursday afternoon.

Acting on a pair of recently awarded unendorsed arrest warrants, Peter Jonathan Cameron Ludvigson, 51, was apprehended on the afternoon of Thursday, July 16 in south Nanaimo and escorted into a waiting police cruiser.

The renewed warrants followed a separate warrant issued earlier this month after Ludvigson no-showed for a mandated court appearance.

Since last fall, over a dozen criminal code charges have been laid against Ludvigson, including an elevated theft over $5,000 charge for an alleged July 4 incident in Nanaimo.