Charity runner arrested

Posted Jul 3, 2012 11:20 pm.

This article is more than 5 years old.

An Alberta man trying to run across Canada for charity says being arrested doesn’t discourage him from his goal.

Curtis Hargrove is facing an obstruction charge after refusing a police officer’s demand to stop running along the Trans-Canada Highway, northeast of Quebec City.

The 23-year-old is due in court in September and has now promised to run through Quebec on secondary roads.

He’s trying to raise a million dollars for the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation in Edmonton.

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