Two Metro Vancouver police officers detained in Cuba for eight months over sexual assault allegations have been acquitted, according to news reports.
The two officers, Const. Mark Simms of the Vancouver Police Department and Const. Jordan Long of the Port Moody Police Department, have been in Cuba since March.
While visiting the resort town of Varadero, they were arrested after a 17-year-old Ontario woman told Cuban police she had been sexually assaulted. The pair were prevented from leaving the country.
A jury of five reached a not guilty decision on the officers, Global News has reported.
