Police say naked man arrested after alleged assault on stranger in B.C.

Maryse Zeidler · CBC News

· Posted: May 25, 2025 9:02 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

Police successful Port Moody, B.C., arrested a bare antheral astatine a fashionable park after helium allegedly assaulted a alien and equipped himself with a weapon successful a restaurant. 

Const. Sam Zacharias with the Port Moody Police Department said respective 911 calls came successful astir the assault, which allegedly took spot astatine Rocky Point Plaza soon earlier 10 p.m. Saturday night. 

"We bash occasionally person disorderly benignant of behaviour successful the park, but this is surely acold beyond that," Zacharias said.

The naked antheral allegedly assaulted different man, Zacharias said, past ran into a adjacent restaurant.

Inside the restaurant, the antheral allegedly equipped himself with a weapon and brandished it successful what Zacharias described arsenic "a threatening manner."

Zacharias said constabulary were connected the country wrong 2 minutes of the calls. He said officers arrested the fishy adjacent without further incident, and nary 1 sustained immoderate superior injuries.

"My knowing is the parkland was inactive rather engaged adjacent though the prima had gone down, determination were inactive rather a fewer park-goers successful in the vicinity," Zacharias said. 

"That evidently makes this perhaps adjacent much brazen and somewhat much concerning."

He said the 48-year-old antheral has been charged with assault, possessing a limb for a unsafe intent and committing an indecent enactment successful a nationalist place.

Investigators are inactive determining the man's motivation, Zacharias said, adding that intoxicant and intelligence wellness challenges whitethorn person played a role. 

Zacharias said that police spoke with respective witnesses astatine the clip of the incident, but anyone with much accusation should interaction the Port Moody Police Department.