Video of Sagmoen RCMP interview shows him explode at officer, deny allegations

Sagmoen faces five charges from an alleged incident in August 2017. He is accused of threatening a sex trade worker with a gun while wearing a mask close to his parent’s property near Falkland.

The case remains suspended in Voir Dire hearings to determine whether the statements Sagmoen made in the video are admitted as evidence in his trial.

Throughout the statement with Sagmoen, Const. Richard McQueen seeks to confirm several elements: if he contacts or meets up with women via backpage.com (a social media site for sex workers), if he possesses a .405 shotgun or its ammunition, and if he could provide the passcode to his phone for officers to search it.

Sagmoen appears rattled by the line of questioning and during brief responses, his emotions veer between exhaustion, distress, frustration and anger. He asks to leave, go for a smoke, and cries for his mother. Yet, when he finds out about a search warrant at his parents’ property, he blows up.

“Have you ever used computers in the house?” McQueen asked.

“No,” Sagmoen replied.

“Ever?” McQueen pressed.

“No, I don’t use the computers in the house.”

“We had to seize them under warrant,” McQueen said.

Sagmoen threw a chair across the room.

“F—king… don’t even in the house! Like F—k. What about my mom?” Sagmoen said.

After calming down and straightening the chair, Sagmoen spoke about his text conversations with women from the website. Initially, he told McQueen he never met any women and that his visits to the page were solely to look at pictures of escorts and speak to them over the phone. However, he later tells McQueen if he took him for a smoke he could tell him the truth.

“Do you want me to say something totally embarrassing so that you and your colleagues can go back and laugh about it?” Sagmoen asked.

He told McQueen he called women from backpage.com to meet up but never followed through with the rendezvous.

“I go on there, look at the pictures, call them up, jerk off and then pass out,” he said. “OK. So that’s what I do. Are you f—king happy now?”

“These girls that you have been texting where have you been telling them to meet you?” McQueen asked.

“I don’t know. All over the place,” Sagmoen said.

When it came to discussing firearms, Sagmoen said he’d never fired one, except for one time last year.

“I have more respect for them firearms than I do myself,” he said.

“OK. Well, where did this .410 round come from?” McQueen asked.

“I do not know,” Sagmoen said.

McQueen then pivoted back to asking about recent woman he texted.

“Which one? Turn the recorder off, please,” Sagmoen said emotionally.

“I never pointed a firearm at anybody or threatened anybody or pulled the trigger, OK,” Sagmoen said.

“Well, I can tell you a .410 round came from somewhere,” McQueen replied.

Sagmoen is charged with disguising his face with intent, use of a firearm in the commission of an offence, assault, and possession of methamphetamine.

In their search of the Sagmoen property, officers located the remains of Traci Genereaux, who was 18 years old when she went missing. Investigators have not released any information on how Genereaux died, except to say investigators classified her death as suspicious. There have been no suspects named, nor any charges issued in relation to her death.

The case will be back in B.C. Supreme Court in Vernon Monday, but a trial into the charges is not expected to be held until December.

by Vernon Matters Staff

Video of Sagmoen RCMP interview shows him explode at officer, deny allegations

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