Crown counsel has approved a number of charges related to last Friday’s carjacking in downtown Vancouver.

Twenty-seven-year-old Vancouver resident Jesse William Swain has been charged with the following offences:

  • three counts of assault with a weapon
  • robbery
  • dangerous driving causing bodily harm
  • fail to stop at an accident scene involving bodily harm
  • fail to stop at an accident with a vehicle; and
  • theft under $5000.

Swain remains in custody.