**** RCMP Media Release
UPDATE: Allen Desrosiers pleads guilty to criminal harassment
Allen William Desrosiers has plead guilty to Criminal Harassment and has left Canada.
On December 14, 2022, as part of an ongoing investigation related to the stalking of a 25-year-old woman on Water St. in Yarmouth, RCMP officers with Yarmouth Town and Yarmouth Rural RCMP, safely arrested Allen William Desrosiers at a home on Chebogue Rd. in Rockville. The stalking incidents occurred in October and December 2022. Desrosiers was transported to the Yarmouth Provincial Court where he was remanded into custody.
On January 4, 2023, Desrosiers appeared in Shelburne Provincial Court, where he plead guilty to Criminal Harassment. Desrosiers was sentenced to 3 years Probation, which includes conditions that he leave Canada forthwith and that he cannot return, without the permission of the Nova Scotia Provincial Court, for 3 years. Desrosiers also entered into a Peace Bond, which will take effect at the end of his 3 years of Probation, which further restricts him from returning to Canada, without the permission of the Nova Scotia Provincial Court, for an additional 2 years.
Earlier today, Desrosiers left Canada and, as a result of the Probation Order and Peace Bond, he cannot, without the permission of the Nova Scotia Provincial Court, return to Canada for at least the next 5 years.
The Yarmouth Town and Yarmouth Rural RCMP worked closely with the Nova Scotia Public Prosecution Service as part of this investigation.
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Original Post – December 16, 2022
Yarmouth Town RCMP has charged a man with Criminal Harassment after two incidents in Yarmouth.
On December 13, 2022, as part of an ongoing investigation, Yarmouth Town RCMP received information concerning two incidents of stalking that occurred in October and December 2022, respectively. RCMP officers learned that a 64-year-old Rockville man, had stalked a 25-year-old woman on Water St. in Yarmouth in October, and the same man had stalked the same victim again on Water St. in December. RCMP officers collected surveillance footage in the area that helped provide additional evidence relating to the stalking described by the victim.
As a result, on December 14, RCMP officers with the Yarmouth Town RCMP and Yarmouth Rural RCMP, safely arrested a man at a home on Chebogue Rd. in Rockville. The man was transported the Yarmouth Rural RCMP Detachment where he was held in cells, prior to being transported to the Yarmouth Provincial Court.
Allen William Desrosiers, 64, of Rockville, has been charged with Criminal Harassment (2 counts). Desrosiers was remanded into custody and will appear in Yarmouth Provincial Court on December 19, 2022, at 9:30 a.m.
