Gas station owner faces new charges from online encounter
By Medicine Hat News on March 27, 2021.
Medicine Hat News A Walsh gas station owner already facing charges of physically attacking a competitor has now been charged with making online threats against an unnamed person. Anwar Ahmed Kamaran, 44, is in custody, according to a Redcliff RCMP release on Friday, on allegations he used an online alias and posted comments about “personal violence toward an intended victim.” He is set to appear in Medicine Hat Provincial Court on March 29. Last August, RCMP arrested Kamaran on charges that he assaulted members of the family that operated a fuel station near Kamaran’s “Walsh Save On Gas” station. This came after stories in the media of increasing tension between the two outlets near the Alberta-Saskatchewan boundary on the Trans-Canada Highway. Authorities said this week that on Feb. 10, they received a complaint from an unnamed person that they felt threatened by the owner of a social media account. After obtaining a judicial order to determine the owner of the account, police charged Kamaran with uttering threats and two counts of breaching his release conditions. Kamaran, who became a public figure as a candidate in the 2019 provincial election, faces two counts of assault causing bodily harm from the incidents in the summer. It is not immediately clear when his next appearance on those charges is scheduled. 9-8
