No additional jail time for man who assaulted Switzer Automotive employees

Nov 13, 2019 | 12:52 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB – A 24-year-old man charged in connection with two assaults on employees at Switzer Automotive last May, has been handed a global sentence of 90 days, but will not serve any additional jail time.

Prior to sentencing Rylan Vaile served 130 days in pre-trial custody, and therefore would be released from custody. He will remain on probation for a period of one year.

Vaile was sentenced Nov. 5 for three counts of assault, one count of breach of recognizance, and failure to comply with an undertaking. A sixth charge was related to Unlawfully Entering A Dwelling House.

On May 1, 2019, Mark Switzer, owner of Switzer Automotive, told Lethbridge News Now, that

An employee of his spotted a man in front of his store, looking at a vehicle. When the employee went outside to ask the man to move along, he was spat on, and then beaten. Another employee who went out to help, was also badly beaten.

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One of the employees was taken to Chinook Regional Hospital where he had a CAT scan done to make sure he didn’t suffer either a concussion or other brain injury. The second employee was checked out by a doctor and suffered a badly swollen face. Both men are in their sixties.

Vaile was also the subject of a story by CHAT News in 2018. At that time a good samaritan helped Vaile get from Medicine Hat to Lethbridge after he was involved in an altercation at a local bar, by paying for his bus ticket home, and giving him $20 for food.

by Lara Fominoff