Kamloops man convicted of string of sexual assaults

Kamloops man convicted of string of sexual assaults

KAMLOOPS — A Kamloops man has been found guilty of multiple sexual assaults. Joel Eric Carlson was standing trial in B.C. Supreme Court this month on a total of 10 counts of sexual assault dating back as far as 2013. The most recent charge stems from an incident in the fall of 2018. Thursday night (June 20), a jury came back with guilty verdicts on six of those counts. Carlson was found not guilty on the other four counts. Carlson was initially …

Kamloops serial rapist found guilty on six of nine counts

A jury convicted a Kamloops serial rapist on Thursday night, finding Joel Eric Carlson guilty on six of the nine sexual assault charges he was facing. Jurors returned with their verdict just after 8:30 p.m. They started deliberating the previous evening. The 32-year-old’s trial saw seven women...

Jury convicts Kamloops serial rapist

A man facing ten counts of sexual assault was convicted in Kamloops after an eight-day trial. The jury returned after more than a day of deliberations to find Joel Eric Carlson guilty on six of ten charges. Seven complainants testified against him throughout the trial, with some incidents dating back more than ten years ago. Some were in Kamloops and some were in the Lower Mainland. The most recent was in 2018, but he was charged in 2021. http…