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By KRIS MCDAVID
Canadaeast News Service

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ESGENOOPETITJ - Just days after the RCMP wrapped up a major search of an Esgenoopetitj First Nation home located steps away from where missing teenager Hilary Bonnell was last seen, police returned to the home Sunday to make an arrest.

District 8 RCMP Insp. Roch Fortin said Monday that police arrested a 29-year-old man at the Route 11 property Sunday evening after receiving a complaint from a 17-year-old girl at about 6 a.m. Police wouldn't confirm the man's identity.

Two properties, the brown Esgenoopetitj bungalow and an 32-hectare property in Tabusintac, were the focus of an RCMP search related to a criminal investigation last week.

Fortin said the 29-year-old is being held in Tracadie-Sheila while he awaits a court date, adding police are filing an application to keep him in custody.

He said the arrest is solely linked to the alleged sexual assault reported Sunday and not to the Hilary Bonnell investigation.

Fortin said police completed their search of the sprawling Tabusintac property located on the Cains Point Road on Saturday, as well as other searches of undisclosed properties in the Burnt Church and Neguac area.