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Man who hopped border near Boissevain caught in Winnipeg

By: Staff Writer

Wednesday, Apr. 18, 2012 at 9:31 AM | Comments: 1

Staeton Grant

The search is over for a Jamaican man who sneaked into Manitoba illegally Saturday night and then evaded capture for several days.

The RCMP said Saeton Kevin Grant was captured by Winnipeg police and officers from the Canada Border Services Agency late Tuesday afternoon.

Grant, 40, was found in a house in Winnipeg. He is in now custody.

Grant, who rode a bicycle across the Manitoba-North Dakota border near Boissevain just after dark on Saturday, had been deported from Canada twice before, the last time in the summer of 2010.

A Canadian resident heading home spotted Grant on the North Dakota side of the border around 8 p.m., Saturday, Sgt. Line Karpish said.

She said the resident spotted the man again on the Manitoba side of the border, still riding his bike, on Highway 10.

"It didn't seem right and they contacted us," Karpish said, adding a check with the Canada Border Services Agency at the Boissevain crossing revealed they hadn't cleared anyone through riding a bike.

Karpish said an RCMP officer found Grant in Boissevain but when he attempted to arrest him, he ran off, leaving his bike and backpack behind.

Grant's passport was inside the backpack. A search of the area failed to find him.

A Canada Border Services Agency spokesman said Grant was first deported in 1995 following a criminal conviction and then again in 2010 for being in the country illegally.

Grant was in custody in Winnipeg in June 2010 awaiting deportation when his girlfriend attempted to free him by posing as a Citizenship and Immigration official.

The woman had faxed a letter to officials at the Headingley Correctional Institute, stating there had been a stay of proceedings on Grant's pending deportation.

She was sentenced to four months of house arrest last May.

In 2006, Grant was arrested in the Bahamas after he was stopped with a fake Manitoba learner's permit under a different name. He pleaded guilty to possessing forged documents and uttering forged documents, fined $300 and deported to Jamaica.

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Posted by:turtles back

April 18, 2012 at 3:45 PM

The man is not to be trusted and will keep trying until he succeeds, without anyone knowing his wear abouts.

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