Two people arrested last week following a 10-hour standoff with police in Oliver are being investigated for aggravated assault and robbery in Prince George, according to a Crown prosecutor.
Dillan John Andre Cote, 22, and Michelle Brittany Mercier, 20, were arrested Dec. 14 after members of the RCMP Emergency Response Team used tear gas to get them out of a home near the intersection of Primrose Lane and Road 3.
They haven't been charged yet with any offences related to that incident, but are being held on a warrant for theft under $5,000 in Cranbrook, Crown counsel Kevin Fotty told a judge Monday in Penticton.
Fotty successfully sought a three-day detention order for the two, which will allow the Crown in Prince George additional time to decide if it will lay charges there in relation to the alleged robbery.
Cote - whose given name and age were stated incorrectly by Mounties in a press release last week - was also wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for an alleged parole violation.
Court records show he was sentenced in November 2015 in Nanaimo to three years in prison for a May 2014 robbery and assault in West Kelowna, and another four years for an October 2014 robbery in Qualicum Beach.
His record also contains numerous other offences from around Alberta and B.C., including three October 2014 break-and-enters in Summerland, for which he was sentenced to nine months in jail.
Mercier, meanwhile, is facing two charges of breaching a court order by having contact with Cote.
Both are due back in court on Thursday.
