Knox Mountain arsonist gets 21-month prison sentence
Robert Teal will serve 18 months for arson and three months for assault after setting multiple fires and threatening workers with a slingshot.
- On Monday, Kelowna Provincial Court Justice Andrew Tam sentenced Robert Teal, 49, to 21 months in prison for setting multiple fires at Knox Mountain Park on October 24, 2025.
- Justice Tam noted that Teal was "depressed and suicidal" two months before the incidents, while struggling with substance use that left him "clearly divorced from reality."
- During the incident, Teal pointed a slingshot at a bylaw officer; the assault charge was later reduced to simple assault because his delusions prevented him from recognizing the peace officer.
- After receiving 435 days of pre-sentencing custody credit, Teal has 195 days remaining behind bars and must provide a DNA sample to the National DNA Data Bank of Canada.
- Teal must serve three years of probation upon release with bans on incendiaries and drugs, conditions Justice Tam imposed while highlighting the extreme danger wildfires pose to the Okanagan.
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Kelowna arsonist sentenced to 21-months prison, 3 years probation - The Similkameen Spotlight
A Kelowna man will spend another 195 days behind bars after pleading guilty to arson and assault. During a sentencing hearing in Kelowna Provincial Court on Monday, Aug. 10, Justice Tam said the accused, Robert Teal, 49, set fire to several locations at Knox Mountain Park on Oct. 24, 2025, before adding to the flames using vegetation and branches. The Kelowna Fire Department was called to the park at about 3:30 p.m. and quickly extinguished the …
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A Kelowna man will spend another 195 days behind bars after pleading guilty to arson and assault. During a sentencing hearing in Kelowna Provincial Court on Monday, Aug. 10, Justice Tam said the accused, Robert Teal, 49, set fire to several locations at Knox Mountain Park on Oct. 24, 2025, before adding to the flames using vegetation and branches. The Kelowna Fire Department was called to the park at about 3:30 p.m. and quickly extinguished the …
Knox Mountain arsonist gets 21-month prison sentence
A man who lit multiple fires on Knox Mountain in Kelowna in October 2025 has been sentenced to 21 months in prison. Robert Teal, 49, pleaded guilty in July to arson damaging property and assault for the string of bizarre incidents on October 24, 2025. Construction workers at the base of Knox M...
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