Curtis Sagmoen leaving the Vernon courthouse, today, June 19.

(BEN BULMER / iNFOnews.ca)

Curtis Sagmoen has been granted bail after being arrested for breaching his probation.

Appearing by video today from custody, Sagmoen was granted bail under strict conditions after being arrested April 28.

Details of Sagmoen's bail hearing and his arrest are covered under a court-imposed publication ban.

Following a 2019 conviction for ambushing and pointing a firearm at a sex trade worker, Sagmoen was put on a strict three-year probation order.

Sagmoen had not been charged for breaching the probation order put in place December 2019 until one week ago.

On April 26 – the same day he had a charge of assaulting a police officer stayed by the crown – he was arrested and charged with three breaches of probation.

He was later released from custody, but on April was arrested again for breaching his probation.

He remained in custody until today when B.C. Provincial Court Judge Roy Dickey ordered his release.

Appearing by video dressing in orange prison garb and sporting a beard, Sagmoen only spoke to confirm he could hear the proceedings and the details of his bail.

Sagmoen, 41, has a history of violence towards sex workers and was convicted in 2019 and 2020 for two separate assaults against sex trade workers that took place in the summer of 2017.

In one instance, Sagmoen disguised his face and pointed a gun at a sex trade worker he had called to his family's Salmon River Road property.

In another instance, he drove a quad bike into a sex worker he'd called to the large rural property. He was convicted of assault causing bodily harm and sentenced to five-months jail, although he didn't do time behind bars as he'd spent more than two years in custody before going to trial.

While Sagmoen had not breached his probation prior to the recent charges, police on two separate occasions have made the unusual move of warning sex trade workers from avoiding the Salmon River Road area.

One of Sagmoen's probation conditions is not to have any contact with sex trade workers.

However, neighbours have reported seeing sex trade workers around the Sagmoen property on a couple of occasions in the last year and a half.

Following Sagmoen's arrest in 2017 his family's Salmon River Road property was searched and the remains of the body of Traci Genereaux were discovered.

No one has ever been charged in relation to Genereaux's death and police have not said how she died.

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