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March 26, 2022 - 6:00 AM
An Okanagan woman with a lengthy criminal record is back behind bars having been recently charged with two separate counts of kidnapping.
Amanda Marie Sach, along with three other suspects, were charged Mar. 22 for kidnapping a Lake Country couple, before robbing and extorting them for money with a fake firearm.
It's not clear whether the couple was held for multiple days, but court documents show the kidnapping took place from Feb. 10 to Feb. 16.
Days later on Feb. 20, Sach and separate co-accused, Dieter John Sockel, are alleged to have kidnapped another couple in Vernon using a fake gun and robbing them.
Three other suspects, Nathan Daniel Fahl, Russell Jordan Elliot Newman, and Natasha Dyanne Roshuk were also charged in relation to the Lake Country kidnapping.
Fahl made headlines when in 2013 he was charged with dangerous driving causing bodily harm after a vehicle he was in ran an RCMP roadblock in Kelowna and hit a newspaper carrier causing the man serious permanent injuries. He later had the charges dropped, when Donald Brodie, after confessing to the media, was found to have been driving the vehicle and was sentenced to nine years in jail.
Newman, who is alleged to have been involved in the Lake Country kidnapping, has a previous criminal record largely for driving offences and currently has outstanding charges for possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
Roshuk has no criminal record in B.C.
Sach has a lengthy criminal history and in 2014, she was sentenced to two-and-a-half years jail for a violent home invasion where she used zap straps to tie up a victim before punching and robbing them.
Later that year, the RCMP issued a warrant for her arrest after she failed to return to the Fraser Valley Institute for Women following an authorized leave of absence.
Along with driving without a licence and resisting arrest charges, Sach is also facing recent charges for theft of a vehicle and theft of a stolen generator and tools worth more than $5,000 for an incident that took place in Vernon last Christmas.
The co-accused in the vehicle theft is Dale Christopher Lloyd Babiy, who was sentenced to four years in jail in 2017 for an incident whereby he stripped naked, beat, and then pepper-sprayed an individual he picked up hitchhiking. The assault was connected to the drug trade and stemmed from competition between the men.
It's unknown whether the victims in the recent kidnapping cases were known to the accused.
Sach and Fahl are both scheduled for a bail hearing in April.
None of the charges have been proven in court.
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