{"id":121369,"date":"2025-09-05T07:57:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:57:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121369\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T07:57:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T07:57:40","slug":"queen-of-canada-rearrested-charged-with-violating-conditions-of-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/121369\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Queen of Canada’ rearrested, charged with violating conditions of release"},"content":{"rendered":"

Romana Didulo, the so-called “Queen of Canada,” was rearrested on Thursday a day after she and 15 of her followers were taken into custody and promptly released following a police raid on her cult’s compound in rural Saskatchewan.<\/p>\n

All 16 had been released without charges earlier on Thursday, the RCMP said in a statement, though five were released under certain conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Didulo, 50, was rearrested for violating her conditions, as was 61-year-old\u00a0Ricky Manz,\u00a0the man who owns\u00a0the\u00a0former elementary school in Richmound, Sask., where Didulo and her followers have been living for two years, the Mounties said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Didulo and Manz had been ordered not to communicate with each other.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Didulo\u00a0has been charged with\u00a0failure to comply with\u00a0an undertaking and one count of intimidation of a justice system participant. Manz faces similar charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WATCH |\u00a0‘Queen of Canada’ cult leader arrested:\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

‘Queen of Canada’ cult leader arrested after RCMP raid at Richmound, Sask., compound<\/p>\n

Saskatchewan RCMP arrested 16 adults, including cult leader Romana Didulo, in the village of Richmound, Sask., on Wednesday after a firearms investigation.<\/p>\n

“Police officers can release individuals on undertakings before a court information is signed. That is when charges are formalized and made public,” the statement said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officials on Thursday said they would not provide details on the three others released on undertakings as their court information\u00a0had not yet been signed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"APolice raided the school, seen here, on Wednesday. (Chris Edwards\/CBC)<\/p>\n

Since the cult set up base in Richmound\u00a0\u2014 a village\u00a0of approximately 120\u00a0people, about 365 kilometres west of Regina,\u00a0near the Alberta border \u2014 there have been a number of\u00a0complaints from locals, who accuse\u00a0the group of harassing\u00a0people and plotting to take over the town.<\/p>\n

Didulo\u00a0has spread various conspiracy theories\u00a0through social media and, in October\u00a02023, her group sent a Richmound administrator four “cease and desist” emails, which threatened village officials with “publicly broadcast execution.”<\/p>\n

Manz has been remanded into custody and is scheduled to appear in Swift Current Provincial Court on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Didulo was not remanded\u00a0but is also scheduled to appear in that same court on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

RCMP Insp. Ashley St. Germaine\u00a0stressed at a Wednesday\u00a0news conference that police could only hold individuals in custody for 24 hours without laying charges.\u00a0<\/p>\n

St. Germaine\u00a0added that just because an individual was released from custody did not mean that charges could not be laid later.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Police say they raided the compound after receiving\u00a0a report that one of its occupants had a firearm.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Officers seized 13\u00a0imitation semi-automatic handguns, ammunition\u00a0and a large number of electronic devices.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WATCH |\u00a0Didulo\u00a0livestreams her own arrest:\u00a0\"\"<\/p>\n

‘Queen of Canada’ livestreams her own arrest as RCMP deploy to cult headquarters in Sask.<\/p>\n

Romana Didulo, who calls herself the Queen of the Kingdom of Canada, began a livestream to the platform Telegram Wednesday morning as RCMP descended on her headquarters in Richmound, Sask., where she has been staying with her followers for two years. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Romana Didulo, the so-called “Queen of Canada,” was rearrested on Thursday a day after she and 15 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":117394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-121369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}