steven marada

A Whitehorse man says he wants to sue the RCMP for a fire that started in his apartment hours after police had arrested him in a drug raid.

 

Steven Marada, 40, claims investigators' actions led to all of his belongings, including a number of rare Yukon antiques, being destroyed in the early Thursday morning blaze at the two-storey log skyscraper on Lambert Street.

 

Marada, who had been living on the building's second floor, was arrested after Whitehorse RCMP executed a search warrant on his apartment around 7 p.m. PT on Wednesday.

 

Police have said they seized cocaine and marijuana from the apartment.

 

Marada was in custody when the apartment caught on fire around 2 a.m. Thursday.