Saturday, Apr 18, 2015 06:00 am

By: Viola Pruss

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After driving on the highway past his curfew, Travis Vader was arrested for the third time this year.

The man charged in connection with the murder of two St. Albert seniors was arrested Tuesday night in Camrose. Vader, 43, was charged with failing to comply with a condition of his release to be "indoors at his approved residence between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. daily."

Camrose police Sgt. Rene Brisson said Vader wore an electronic monitoring bracelet that is constantly monitored by a private company and Edmonton police. Vader was arrested after his bracelet showed him driving on Highway 21 north of the city around 10:15 p.m.

"We were then advised that, according to the electronic monitoring bracelet, that he had continued south and then entered into Camrose and attended the St. Mary’s Hospital," he said. "He was arrested at the hospital."

Medical emergencies are an exception under the curfew condition but police believe that is irrelevant to the current charge, said Brisson. Vader was treated and released at that hospital after he was arrested. Police cannot say what his medical issue was. He was released from custody the next day.

Brisson said Vader seemed to have spent some time in the Wabamun area before his curfew time. It appears that he was coming home late, he said. When noticing that he was out past his curfew, police also tried talking to him through his ankle bracelet. But Vader did not respond, he said.

Vader has been in and out of jail since the disappearance of St. Albert seniors Lyle and Marie McCann. The couple went missing in July 2010 on a trip to British Columbia to visit family.

Vader was formally charged in the disappearance of the St. Albert couple nearly two years after he was named a suspect. The charges were stayed in March 2014, a few weeks before he was to face a jury trial. He was rearrested on the charges in December and ordered to remain under house arrest.

He was since arrested twice for failing to comply with conditions of his release and released on bail both times.

In February, he was charged with an alleged assault on his mother’s boyfriend in St. Albert. He was arrested again, 16 days later, in the rural Carrot Creek area with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and six counts of failing to comply with court-ordered conditions.

Vader will appear in Camrose provincial court on his single charge on Wednesday, April 29 at 9:30 a.m. His lawyer, Brian Beresh, was not available for comment.