On Apr. 16 North District Major Crime Unit and the Williams Lake RCMP with the assistance of Merritt frontline members and Kamloops Police Dog Service arrested Jordell Sellars in relation to the August 2019 homicide of Branton Regner.
Regner was reported missing following an incident on the Rudy Johnson Bridge on Friday August 9 2019 and was found deceased in the Fraser River on Tuesday Aug. 27 2019.
Sellars, 30 years old, has been remanded into custody and is scheduled to make a court appearance on April 23, 2020. Sellars has been charged with 1 count of murder, 1 count of attempt murder and 1 count of kidnapping.
Two other men, Jayson Gilbert, 26, and Michael Drynock, 23 years old, have also been charged with the same offences as a result of this investigation.
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