A 61-year-old man is facing charges after allegedly assaulting two snowmobilers near Saskatoon this winter.
Deryl Ring, an alpaca farmer in the R.M. of Corman Park, was recently charged with assault, assault with a weapon, possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and mischief following an RCMP investigation into the February confrontation.
The incident was caught on camera by one of the sledders. Ring, armed with what appears to be a shotgun on a rural Corman Park road, is seen confronting the snowmobilers before kicking one of the sleds and hitting one snowmobiler on the head.
He accused the pair of trespassing and scaring his alpacas.
One of the sledders, Jeff Smerechanski, told CTV shortly after the incident he did not see signs indicating he was on private property. He said they were sledding on Ring's neighbour's land.
“It was an honest mistake. Certainly now we’d never go on that land again,” Smerechanski said.
Ring declined an interview with CTV following the incident.
He is scheduled to appear in Saskatoon provincial court Sept. 17.
