Bracebridge OPP officer charged with assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon

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Bracebridge OPP officer charged with assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon

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Bracebridge OPP officer headed to trial on assault charges for incident caught on camera

Bracebridge OPP Const. Scott Anthony has hired Toronto defence lawyer Peter Brauti to defend him ahead of his assault case heading to trial.

Anthony faces allegations of violently beating a man in July 2022, an incident that was caught on surveillance camera.

The charges stem from an investigation by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) into the alleged assault on a 43-year-old man from Georgian Bay Township.

The SIU reported that two officers, including Anthony, responded to a break-in and trespass at the Canadian Pacific Railway yard in MacTier. When the officers arrived, they encountered a suspect who was subsequently arrested.

Security camera footage captured the incident, which appeared to show an officer using a stun gun on the man and kicking him in the head while he was on the ground.

The video appears to depict the man being subjected to multiple kicks, followed by the second officer administering another stun gun shock before the suspect is pulled along the ground by his feet with his hands restrained behind his back.

The suspect was hospitalized with serious injuries.

Anthony is charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm and one count of assault with a weapon.

According to the OPP, the other officer involved is no longer employed by the service.

Bracebridge OPP Const. Scott Anthony has hired Toronto defence lawyer Peter Brauti to defend him ahead of his assault case heading to trial.

Anthony faces allegations of violently beating a man in July 2022, an incident that was caught on surveillance camera.

The charges stem from an investigation by the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) into the alleged assault on a 43-year-old man from Georgian Bay Township.

The SIU reported that two officers, including Anthony, responded to a break-in and trespass at the Canadian Pacific Railway yard in MacTier. When the officers arrived, they encountered a suspect who was subsequently arrested.

Security camera footage captured the incident, which appeared to show an officer using a stun gun on the man and kicking him in the head while he was on the ground.

The video appears to depict the man being subjected to multiple kicks, followed by the second officer administering another stun gun shock before the suspect is pulled along the ground by his feet with his hands restrained behind his back.

The suspect was hospitalized with serious injuries.

Anthony is charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm and one count of assault with a weapon.

According to the OPP, the other officer involved is no longer employed by the service.

Weeks before this incident, CTV News obtained video surveillance(opens in a new tab) from inside a holding cell at the Bracebridge OPP detachment that appears to show Anthony striking a man in custody repeatedly.

After receiving the video last year, the SIU stated it had reopened that case and the investigation is ongoing.

Trial dates for the alleged assault in MacTier are anticipated to be scheduled next week.

The allegations against the officer have not been tested in court.

An alleged assault was captured on surveillance camera on July 10, 2022, in MacTier, Ont. (Supplied)

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New trial dates set for Bracebridge OPP officer charged with assault

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OPP officer Scott Anthony is facing charges of assault causing bodily harm and assault with a weapon following an arrest in MacTier in November 2022

A trial involving a Bracebridge OPP officer facing criminal charges is scheduled to begin next year.

At a trial scheduling hearing May 14 at the Bracebridge courthouse, the assault case against Bracebridge OPP officer Scott Anthony was set for trial in 2025 between Feb. 3 to 14 (all weekdays) in Huntsville.

Anthony, who is on leave from the force, was charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm and one count of assault with a weapon in November 2022. The charges were laid after an SIU investigation into the July 2022 arrest of a man in MacTier.

The trial had originally been set to start February in Collingwood. The reason for the Collingwood scheduling was because there were no dates available in Muskoka at that time.

However, at the court appearance this week, Crown attorney Vlatko Karadzic informed Justice R. Williams the 2024 date had to be rescheduled due to Anthony’s change in legal representation. Peter Brauti is now representing Anthony, the court was told.

“I would like to set a trial confirmation hearing just to confirm that everything’s teed up and ready to go,” Williams said.

“I know last time that we had a confirmation hearing, because this is the second time this matter has been up for trial. The trial co-ordinator gave us a confirmation hearing before that out-of-town judge in that judge’s home jurisdiction. But I don’t know if that’s the plan,” Karadzic added.

The judge said he didn’t think that would be an issue right now.

“If there’s any issue, we can make arrangements then and get it back before the assigned trial judge,” Williams added.

The two sides agreed to Nov. 20 in Bracebridge for the confirmation hearing.

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OPP officer charged with assault expected to plead guilty

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A month before what was supposed to be the start of his trial in Huntsville, Const. Scott Anthony, the suspended Bracebridge OPP officer charged with assaulting a man during an arrest in July 2022 in MacTier, is expected to plead guilty, according to his legal counsel.

During a virtual court appearance Wednesday afternoon, a lawyer representing Anthony told the court a “resolution in principle” had been reached.

The officer was charged following a Special Investigations Unit (SIU) investigation into the alleged assault on a man from Georgian Bay Township during a call for an overnight reported break-and-enter and trespass at the CP Railway Yard in MacTier.

Video footage appears to show the man being struck several times by an officer while on the ground.

The SIU reports two officers, including Anthony, located a suspect who was arrested and taken to hospital with serious injuries.

According to Ontario Provincial Police, the other officer involved in the arrest is no longer employed by the service.

The entire 20-minute interaction between the officer and shirtless suspect was captured on surveillance video.

One officer, believed to be Anthony, appears to kick the man in the head after the man was tasered while on the ground.

The man appeared to then get kicked repeatedly by the officer.

Minutes later, the other officer arrived and appeared to use his taser on the man who is then seen being dragged by his feet with his hands in cuffs behind his back.

Anthony is charged with one count of assault causing bodily harm and one count of assault with a weapon.

Toronto defence lawyer Peter Brauti was hired by Anthony last year.

The Crown said video evidence from the MacTier arrest will be played for the court, along with other exhibits filed during the anticipated plea proceedings.

Sentencing is expected in the spring.

Anthony is scheduled to make his next appearance at the Huntsville courthouse on February 3. The allegations against him have not been tested in court.

An alleged assault was captured on surveillance camera on July 10, 2022, in MacTier, Ont. (Supplied)

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OPP officer pleads guilty to assault after violent arrest caught on camera

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A longtime Ontario Provincial Police officer who was charged with assaulting a shirtless man nearly three years ago during an arrest for alleged trespassing, has pleaded guilty.

OPP veteran officer Scott Anthony, 27, walked into the Huntsville courthouse Monday morning with his lawyer by his side. Anthony pleaded guilty to assault causing bodily harm in a violent arrest that was caught on camera July 10, 2022, in MacTier.

The officer is seen repeatedly striking the man with his taser and kicking him before he and another officer are seen dragging the man into a police cruiser several minutes later.

The 30-minute surveillance video was played for the court in its entirely after the Crown read an Agreed Statement of Facts to the court.

Justice John Olver heard the officer was responding to a 3 a.m. trespassing call for a man seen trying to hop on a CP train while it was being inspected in MacTier.

According to a witness, the then 44-year-old MacTier man was seen falling off the moving train. An engineer called police and reported the man seemed “out of it.” He said the shirtless man appeared high on something and sought shelter in a nearby bunkhouse and shed.

It was within minutes, the court heard, Anthony arrived on scene near the rail yard and was captured on camera deploying his stun gun on the man. He is then seen hitting the man in the head while he was on the ground. The officer is then seen pulling and dragging the man by his feet and kicking him in the head and legs.

According to the Agreed Statement of Facts, the bloodied man was taken to hospital with several injuries to his head, torso, arms and legs. Charges against him, after he was released from hospital, were later dropped by the Crown.

Anthony was charged with assault causing bodily harm and one count of assault with a weapon following an investigation by the Special Investigations Unit.

Crown Attorney Vlatko Karadzic said Monday it could not proven beyond a reasonable doubt broken ribs and a punctured lung suffered by the man were a result of Anthony’s strikes or from the man falling off the train at 16km/hr.

Anthony, as part of the Agreed Statement of Facts read in court, acknowledged he caused injuries to the face of the MacTier man and admitted that the use of his stun gun, along with dragging the man to the police cruiser went against his training.

The court heard Anthony, at one point, had been an instructor for use of force with stun guns.

CTV News also obtained video of an incident weeks prior to the rail yard arrest, on June 20, 2022. The surveillance video from inside a holding cell at the Bracebridge OPP detachment appeared to show Anthony striking a man in custody repeatedly.

The man later collapsed to the ground in the cell. The man was also in court Monday in Huntsville to observe the proceedings with a loved one. He said he is Métis and struggles with developmental disabilities. He told CTV News he was pleased to see Anthony plead guilty to the assault of the MacTier man.

This summer, the SIU cleared Anthony of any criminal wrongdoing inside the police detachment in June 2022. The SIU said Anthony used reasonable force and defended himself in the holding cell when the man tried to punch him.

Anthony, according to the OPP, is on an unrelated leave. He left the Huntsville courthouse from a back door. Neither Anthony, nor lawyer Peter Ketcheson, offered comment on the guilty plea.

The matter returns to a virtual courtroom later this month to set a date for a sentencing hearing.

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