Former Saskatoon mayoral candidate charged with robbery, assault at motel in North Battleford, Sask.

Dan Zakreski · CBC News

· Posted: Apr 09, 2025 5:42 PM EDT | Last Updated: 8 minutes ago

A antheral who ran for politician successful Saskatoon successful 2020 is 1 of 3 charged with equipped robbery, battle and different offences aft a robbery astatine a edifice successful North Battleford, Sask.

Mark Zielke ran unsuccessfully for Saskatoon politician successful 2020, placing sixth successful a tract of six.

Zielke, 41, is accused alongside Tyson Moore, 44, and David Dominguez, 41, of robbing the Hitching Post Motel connected Saturday night. The trio were arrested after RCMP stopped Zielke's achromatic BMW X3 astatine the Borden Bridge, 50 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon.

Zielke appeared by video Wednesday successful North Battleford provincial court. He made bail and is scheduled to instrumentality April 28.

Bail hearings for Moore and Dominguez are acceptable connected Thursday.

RCMP offered a communicative of events successful a quality merchandise and supporting tribunal documents.

Officers responded to the Hitching Post astatine astir 10:40 p.m. CST connected Saturday aft reports of a robbery. They arrived to find a motel staffer injured and were told 3 suspects had made off with cash, electronics, ID and fiscal cards, according to the quality release.

Cameras astatine the Lone Star Hotel adjacent doorway captured the achromatic BMW leaving the scene, unit told CBC.

RCMP stopped the car astatine the Borden Bridge and arrested the 3 men.

All 3 men are facing 14 charges related to the robbery.

The tribunal documents allege Zielke had a loaded, unregistered Glock 19 handgun and a sword wrong the car. He's besides charged with confining and threatening to termination motel staff, and damaging the motel CCTV cameras.

It's alleged that helium assaulted the motel staffer with a ample ring. On his societal media illustration connected X, Zielke is shown wearing an oversized ringing with a Lady Justice insignia.

In summation to moving for mayor, Zielke is good known successful the section ineligible assemblage for his advocacy work. Although helium is not licensed successful Saskatchewan arsenic a practising lawyer, helium offers to correspond radical successful tiny claims and postulation tribunal done his business, Living Sky Advocates. 

In 2019, a Court of Queen's Bench justice ordered Zielke to halt giving ineligible proposal oregon acting for clients successful tribunal until helium is licensed by the Law Society of Saskatchewan.

In 2021, Saskatchewan's Court of Appeal overruled that decision.