Gas station owner charged with more crimes

By MEDICINE HAT NEWS on September 8, 2022.

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Medicine Hat News

A Cypress county man found guilty last year of assaulting a business rival is now facing charges he broke his probation by allegedly threatening two other men.

Anwar Ahmad Kamaran, 46, was sentenced to eight months in custody and two years probation for assault, uttering threats and breaching court-imposed conditions following a fight at a gas station near his own store and fuelling station near Walsh.

The News has learned that on Aug. 3, 2022 – the one-year-anniversary of his sentencing – Kamaran was charged by Redcliff RCMP with two new counts of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm.

He also faces a single count of breaching his probation order, which includes requirements to keep the peace and be of good behaviour.

Redcliff RCMP officials told the News they would not release any other information regarding the case.

The legal matter was at the case management office of Medicine Hat Provincial Court on Wednesday for first appearance and scheduling.

Court documents obtained by the News suggest the two male targets of the alleged threats are not the same people involved in the initial August 2020 incident. That was an escalation of a tense “gas price war” between the two businesses at the Trans-Canada Highway stop about 45 kilometres east of Medicine Hat.

Kamaran was a candidate for the Alberta Liberal Party in the 2019 provincial election for the riding of Cypress-Medicine Hat.