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McCoy alleges two officers showed up and broke a window of the van before forcefully pulling her and Gyles out of the vehicle, injuring her wrists and forearms, and handcuffing and arresting them.

McCoy claims she was not told why she was being arrested and it wasn’t until she asked that she was informed it was for obstruction.

She alleges she was then pushed into an RCMP vehicle with excessive force that resulted in her leg being bruised.

A statement of defence has not yet been filed. Statements of claim and statements of defence contain unproven allegations.

According to the statement of claim, one of the officers asked McCoy’s teenage son, who was standing outside the home, whether McCoy and Gyles lived there and he replied that they did and that they were his parents. He was then asked for his mother’s identification and handed over her passport and birth certificate.

McCoy alleges the officers left the door open after illegally searching the van, which resulted in her briefcase, contracts and cash being stolen.

McCoy says she was then taken to the Banff RCMP detachment and forced to take off her shirt in front of two male officers. She was wearing nothing under the shirt. She was then placed in a cell and later given food with meat in it despite saying she was a vegetarian.

McCoy claims she was never given an opportunity to call a lawyer and was held for approximately nine hours before being released.

As a result, McCoy alleges she missed two scheduled appointments that day with wedding catering clients and ended up losing more than $50,000 worth of business. As well, she said the fallout led to her business relationship with event planners being damaged and said she has not been asked to cater a wedding since.

McCoy was charged with obstruction and issued a ticket for camping on public land; however, the charge was later stayed and the ticket withdrawn.

McCoy claims she suffered mental and physical pain due to the alleged misconduct and now fears and distrusts law enforcement.