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A sixth person has been arrested in relation to the homicide of Tiki Laverdiere and police say more arrests are likely.

According to an RCMP news release, 33-year-old Soaring Eagle Whitstone of Onion Lake Cree Nation was arrested at a Lloydminster home on Tuesday. She is charged with first-degree murder, kidnapping, improperly interfering with a human body and theft of a motor vehicle.

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She is scheduled to make an appearance at North Battleford provincial court on Friday.

Laverdiere, 25, had travelled from Edmonton to the North Battleford and Thunderchild First Nation areas to attend a funeral on April 27.

She last had contact with her family on May 1 and was reported missing May 12. An RCMP canine unit found her body in a rural area outside North Battleford on July 11.

Six people have now been charged in connection to her homicide.

One of those people — Nicole Cook of Edmonton — is the mother of Tristen Cook-Buckle, the young man whose funeral Laverdiere attended prior to her death.