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An ex-RCMP officer convicted of harassment and fraud is facing new charges of obstruction of justice, after he missed his sentencing date with an alleged illness and attempted to obtain a passport.

A woman is also charged with attempting to help him flee to New Zealand.

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It’s the latest in the case of 33-year-old Aaron Lee Sayler, a former Stony Plain Mountie who was convicted of 10 offences in September including fraud over $5,000, using a forged document to commit an offence and harassing his ex-romantic partners.

Notably, he was also found guilty of mischief for egging an ex-girlfriend’s house three times between December 2015 and January 2016, using eggs covered in glitter and emblazoned with sexist words.

The Alberta Serious Incident Response Team (ASIRT) announced the new charges Friday. Sayler resigned from the RCMP in 2016.

Sayler is facing two additional counts of obstruction of justice and a count of breach of a recognizance. ASIRT alleges that sometime between Feb. 8 and March 5, Sayler “counselled or instructed” the destruction of evidence in his case and interfered with a witness in relation to his previous charges.