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Luke Strimbold receiving the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal in 2013 with then-Premier Christy Clark.
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A central B.C. Indigenous leader wants to know why it took so long for RCMP to reveal that a former mayor of a nearby village was charged with sex-related offences.
Mounties say former Burns Lake mayor Luke Strimbold is charged with numerous counts of sexual assault and related offences that are alleged to have happened in 2016.
Court records show the 28-year-old former mayor was arrested and released on Feb. 3, but news about the case didn't emerge until last week.
Chief Wilf Adam of the Lake Babine Nation says Strimbold worked closely with area First Nations on a variety of issues and helped out at a camp that Lake Babine put on about five years ago.
