A Alberta man accused of killing an indigenous woman told an undercover police officer outside a CFL match

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Warning: This story contains details that some readers may find uneasy.

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Grant Sneesby first told his boss his secret outside the Mosaic Stadium in Regina during the third quarter of the Saskatchewan Rough Riders match.

It was June 2018, when police were poking at a Manitoba truck company where Sneesby found part-time jobs, friends and communities. They were asking about Gloria Gradu, a 44-year-old indigenous woman who went missing from northern Alberta in 2015.

Sneesby relaxed his vigilance when Sneesby’s boss confronted him outside the football game.

“Mr. Sniesby effectively said,” I killed a woman, stabbed her, and put her body in a ditch in Manitoba. “

“I asked him what happened … he said,’Drink and fight.'”

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“He had the right side of his abdomen, saying,’She cut me.’ He then said,” I don’t say it’s self-defense, but I stabbed her 12 times … heart. In. ”

That night, Sneesby’s boss was a masked RCMP officer. The company where Sneesby worked was an elaborate ploy with secret Mountains who spent eight months winning Sneesby’s trust to find out what happened to Gladue.

A jury who heard Sneasby’s murder trial this week learned more about the investigation and took police to Gradu’s body later that month.

Sneasby, 72, has pleaded guilty to the number of second murders and has resented the human body. His lawyer raised the possibility that Sneesby had killed Gladue for self-defense.

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‘Mr. Big’

Gradu was last seen on October 10, 2015, after traveling to the Wabaska Desmaray community for a wedding. In a voice email sent that night, Gradu told her daughter that she was with a man named Grant, and she gave him his phone number. In 2016, Sneesby was asked by RCMP and handed over the clothing that Gladue allegedly left at his home.

Sneesby later told undercover agents to wrap Gladue’s body in construction plastic, hide it in a sealed trailer for about a year, and eventually carry the trailer to Manitoba’s nephew’s property, after which the rural body was removed. He said he hid it.

In November 2017, RCMP conducted a “Mr.” large-scale “survey of Sneesby. A controversial technique in which a suspect is guided to a fictitious organization (usually a crime or gray market) and has sufficient influence to cover up the crime.

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Police began by distributing fake restaurant investigations in Gladstone, Massachusetts, where Sneesby moved after leaving Wabasca. Sneesby was later said to have won a prize package that included a trip to Winnipeg in the Jets game.

On a remote ride to Winnipeg, Sneesby met another “winner”. One of them was the boss of a fictional truck company, eventually hiring Sneesby as a part-time “swamper.”

Sneesby used to work as a long-distance truck driver, but was unable to drive due to drunk driving. He was proud to ride a shotgun and secure his luggage. In many cases, he was secretly rented by RCMP and trucked through western Canada for the show. Over time, Sneesby revealed that the company is also involved in the transportation of tobacco in the black market.

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In the next eight months, Sneesby was given more responsibility within the organization. Undercover Investigators, gaining his trust, have created 52 “scenarios” designed to ultimately draw evidence of Gradu’s disappearance.

The scenarios included meals, sports games, golf, and fishing trips on Vancouver’s fictitious company-owned boats.

It also included complex situations, including illegal activity. For example, there is one case in which a company employee cleared up after a colleague who beat her sister’s abuser as part of a trick. The goal of the scenario was to convince Sneesby that the “company” had the ability to take care of themselves and solve problems.

After being accustomed to RCMP several times in 2018, Sneesby’s “boss” told him that if Sneesby was honest, the Vancouver owner of the company could pull the string.

“I said,’People who have money don’t go to jail,'” the policeman testified Wednesday.

He said the officer was first surprised when Sneesby told him that Gradu’s body was in Manitoba, two states away from where she was last seen. He and Sneesby talked about throwing the body out of the company’s owner’s boat, but Sneesby said he didn’t want to take the body back to Alberta.

The Sneesby trial will last for three weeks.

jwakefield@postmedia.com

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