The Con Air program has sent another person back to Ontario to face charges.

On Sept. 3, 40-year-old Steven Allan Murray was arrested by New Westminster Police Service members and today (Sept. 9), Murray was escorted back to Ontario and turned over to Stratford officials.

Murray first came to the New Westminster police's attention on Aug. 25 when members of the service's operational support unit found Murray in the 800 block of Carnarvon Street.

A subsequent records search revealed that Murray was wanted on multiple warrants, for sexual assault, aggravated assault, forcible confinement, failure to appear and mischief, in Stratford, Ont. None of the warrants had been extended past the province of Ontario.

After the police service's criminal intelligence unit was contacted, they proceeded under the Con Air program, in which suspects are flown back to their home province to face justice.

The program, touted by police and politicians as an effective crime-fighting tool, has been operating on a grant from the provincial government and Murray is the seventh person to be escorted out of the province by the New Westminster Police Service since 2008.