Charges laid in connection with sexual assault, robbery near SkyTrain station

The RCMP say a 30-year-old Surrey, B.C., man has been arrested and charged following an alleged sexual assault and robbery earlier this month.

Police received a report just after 11 p.m. PT on July 10 that a woman had been sexually assaulted near the King George SkyTrain station.

A statement saidthe victim was walking under the SkyTrain line toward Fraser Highway when she was allegedly approached by a man with a weapon and robbed of her belongings.

They saidthe man then pulled the woman into nearby bushes and sexually assaulted her, resulting in minor injuries that were treated in hospital.

The Mounties saidan investigation involving several RCMP units in Surrey resulted in the arrest of Hartley Ronald Duckhorn on Friday.

The man was charged the following day with sexual assault with a weapon, use of an imitation firearm while committing an indictable offence, unlawful confinement, robbery and uttering threats.