3 men arrested in Castlegar murder
Published 10:03 am Monday, April 27, 2026
Three men have been arrested for allegedly participating in a 2022 Castlegar murder.
the death of Jean-Luc Noel Levesque in 2022.
On Aug. 11, 2022, Jean-Luc Noel Levesque (51) was found deceased by emergency services in a Castlegar parking lot.
At the time he was of no fixed address, but was known to travel between a number of communities in the West Kootenay.
Jesse Pierre Farmery (34) has been charged with second-degree murder.
Wesley Ryan Poohachoff (46) and Christopher John Teather (45) have both been charged with manslaughter.
On April 24, BC RCMP Major Crime Section investigators, with assistance from the Vancouver Police Department, Castlegar RCMP officers, and Nelson RCMP, arrested the three men without incident.