Convicted sabateur says RCMP asked for his help

Updated: Sun Jul. 19 2009 17:35:47 ctvbc.ca

Wiebo Ludwig, an Alberta farmer who spent nearly two years in prison on charges relating to bombings against oil and gas weills, speaks to CTV News on Oct. 20, 2008.

Wiebo Ludwig, who was convicted of sabotaging oil and gas operations in northwestern Alberta a decade ago, says the RCMP asked him to help catch the EnCana bomber. There have been six bomb attacks since last October against EnCana's oil and gas operations near Dawson Creek, in northeastern British Columbia. "They begged me to help them," Ludwig said. "I said listen, I wouldn't squeal on this guy." But Ludwig said he did offer to go to B.C. and talk to people he knows there in an effort to find the perpetrator - provided police didn't follow him. Ludwig, who was released from jail in 2001 after serving two thirds of a 28 month sentence, said the Mounties turned down his offer. "We have had some conversations with Ludwig," RCMP SGt. Tim Shileds said. "I'm not in a positiong to make those conversations public." The RCMP plan to set up a temporary detachment in Tomslake, B.C. where they believe the suspect lives.Two letters sent by the suspect mentioned the small town, 20-kilometres southeast of Dawson Creek.