METRO VANCOUVER
An RCMP officer facing charges of impaired driving causing death in Delta is refusing to comment on the charges against him.
Reached by The Vancouver Sun on his cellphone Wednesday, Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson hung up as soon as a reporter identified himself.
Follow-up calls to Robinson went to voice mail and messages left for Robinson were not returned.
Robinson is due to appear in Surrey Provincial Court on Jan. 15 after he was allegedly involved in a collision Saturday night that left 21-year-old Orion Hutchinson dead.
According to Delta police, Hutchinson was riding westbound on his motorcycle along Sixth Avenue when his bike collided with an eastbound Jeep at Gilchrist Drive.
Hutchinson, who was thrown from his bike, suffered serious injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Jeep, an off-duty RCMP member, was transported to Delta police headquarters where, Delta police said, he failed a breathalyser test.
The officer was released on a promise to appear in court in January.
Because he has not yet been formally charged, Delta police have refused to publicly identify him.
However, media reports identified the officer as Robinson, whose family owns a house just a few blocks from the crash scene.
The RCMP has also confirmed the officer charged is one of the four who was involved in the Tasering of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver airport on Oct. 14, 2007.
Dziekanski died shortly after being Tasered.
Robinson, who was working for the RCMP's Vancouver 2010 integrated security unit, has been suspended with pay.
Before moving to the Lower Mainland, Robinson worked for several years in Merritt and Chase.
In 2002, Robinson won a provincial bravery award along with two other officers after confronting and arresting a man armed with an axe and a bat at the Adams Lake Indian band office.
The suspect in the case, 28-year-old David Arthur John, was shot by police in the chest after he refused to drop his weapons. John survived.
It was not clear from media reports at the time which officer shot John.
An RCMP officer facing charges of impaired driving causing death in Delta is refusing to comment on the charges against him.
Reached by The Vancouver Sun on his cellphone Wednesday, Cpl. Benjamin Monty Robinson hung up as soon as a reporter identified himself.
Follow-up calls to Robinson went to voice mail and messages left for Robinson were not returned.
Robinson is due to appear in Surrey Provincial Court on Jan. 15 after he was allegedly involved in a collision Saturday night that left 21-year-old Orion Hutchinson dead.
According to Delta police, Hutchinson was riding westbound on his motorcycle along Sixth Avenue when his bike collided with an eastbound Jeep at Gilchrist Drive.
Hutchinson, who was thrown from his bike, suffered serious injuries and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The driver of the Jeep, an off-duty RCMP member, was transported to Delta police headquarters where, Delta police said, he failed a breathalyser test.
The officer was released on a promise to appear in court in January.
Because he has not yet been formally charged, Delta police have refused to publicly identify him.
However, media reports identified the officer as Robinson, whose family owns a house just a few blocks from the crash scene.
The RCMP has also confirmed the officer charged is one of the four who was involved in the Tasering of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski at Vancouver airport on Oct. 14, 2007.
Dziekanski died shortly after being Tasered.
Robinson, who was working for the RCMP's Vancouver 2010 integrated security unit, has been suspended with pay.
Before moving to the Lower Mainland, Robinson worked for several years in Merritt and Chase.
In 2002, Robinson won a provincial bravery award along with two other officers after confronting and arresting a man armed with an axe and a bat at the Adams Lake Indian band office.
The suspect in the case, 28-year-old David Arthur John, was shot by police in the chest after he refused to drop his weapons. John survived.
It was not clear from media reports at the time which officer shot John.
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