A Sarnia police constable, charged in 2023 by the province’s Particular Investigations Unit (SIU), has been acquitted after a trial within the Ontario Court docket of Justice.
On Tuesday, Sean Van Vlymen, 48, pleaded not responsible to assault inflicting bodily hurt stemming from an October 2022 arrest at St. Paul’s Church on Devine Avenue.
On the time, a 35-year-old man suffered a severe damage when police responded to a trespassing name.
Cst. Van Vlymen was acquitted by Justice Jon-Jo Douglas on Wednesday afternoon.
Cst. Van Vlymen, who has been suspended by the Sarnia Police Service since August 29, 2023, was additionally arrested in September of 2024 on 17 charges.
They embrace 12 counts of possessing unauthorized firearms, mischief, assault, felony harassment, inflicting pointless ache to an animal, and threatening demise or bodily hurt.
A few weeks later, he was hit with further firearms associated offences and additional particulars have been withheld to guard the sufferer’s id.
He’ll return to court docket on July 28 for a affirmation listening to.
