OT - OMG and this guy is in charge of weapons!!

[Cdnwolf]

BELLEVILLE, Ont. - The base commander of CFB Trenton has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two eastern Ontario women and in the sexual assaults of two other women.

Police told an afternoon news conference that Col. Russell Williams, 46, of Tweed, Ont., was arrested Sunday in Ottawa.

He's charged with the first-degree murder of Jessica Lloyd, 27, of Belleville and Marie Comeau, a 38-year-old corporal with CFB Trenton's 437 squadron who lived in Brighton.

Lloyd's body was found earlier Monday in Tweed and a post-mortem is being scheduled at the Coroner's Office in Toronto. Comeau was found dead in her home Nov. 25, 2009.

Williams is also charged with forcible confinement, break and enter and sexual assault after two women were sexually assaulted during two separate home invasions in the Tweed area in September of 2009.

Williams will appear in bail court in Belleville this afternoon.

Lloyd was last heard from the night of Jan. 28 when she sent a text message to a friend.

She was reported missing the next day after she failed to show up for her job with the Tri-Board Student Transportation Services in Napanee.

Williams was appointed as the base commander of CFB Trenton last July.

He enrolled in the Canadian Forces in 1987 after getting a degree in economics and political Science from the University of Toronto.

He got his wings in 1990 and spent two years teaching at the military's flight training school.

While posted to squadrons in Shearwater, N.S., and Ottawa he flew the CC144 Challenger.

He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in June 2004, and was commanding officer of 437 Squadron in Trenton for two years.

Between December 2005 and June 2006, he was the commanding officer for Camp Mirage, the secretive Canadian Forces forward logistics base that's not officially acknowledged by the government or military but has been widely reported to be near Dubai.

His Defence Department biography says he is married.

[jester]

Why am I thinking of the insane base comander from "Dr. Stangelove/How I learned to love the bomb."