Maple Ridge Coun. Ahmed Yousef takes leave after criminal charges filed

CBC News

· Posted: May 12, 2025 9:57 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 minutes ago

A Maple Ridge metropolis councillor has taken a permission of lack aft being charged with six transgression offences, including battle and firearm-related charges.

Ahmed Antar Yousef Mohamed, known publically arsenic Ahmed Yousef, is facing 4 counts of assault, 1 number of pointing a firearm astatine different person, and 1 number of unsafe retention of a firearm.

In a connection posted connected his authoritative Facebook leafage Monday, Yousef said helium would beryllium stepping distant from his assembly duties effectual instantly to "focus [his] clip and efforts connected immoderate idiosyncratic matters."

"I anticipation to instrumentality my spot backmost astatine Council astatine the earliest imaginable opportunity," helium wrote. 

In 2022, the B.C. authorities amended the Local Government Act to code situations wherever municipal elected officials are charged with oregon convicted of transgression offences.

The amendments let for the disqualification of local politicians if convicted of an indictable offence and let them to beryllium placed connected paid permission erstwhile charged with a transgression offence until the process is implicit oregon the charges are resolved.

The City of Maple Ridge confirmed his permission successful a little statement.

"[We are] unable to supply immoderate further details connected the matter," the connection read, adding that metropolis assembly continues to conscionable quorum and "can behaviour City concern arsenic usual."

Yousef was archetypal elected to Maple Ridge assembly successful 2018.