[IMG]http://www.gamepolitics.com/files/blogimages/watts.jpg[/IMG]Peter Watts, narrative designer for Homeworld 2, Crysis 2, and the Big Mutha Truckers series, who had a run in with U.S. Customs officers on the U.S./Canadian boarder [URL=http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/12/14/game-writer-border-dispute]last December[/URL], has been [URL=http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2499555]convicted of assaulting, resisting, and obstructing[/URL] a Customs and Border Protection officer.

Watts, who hails from Toronto, was crossing the bridge to Canada when he was stopped for a random inspection on the American side. According to his lawyer, Watts was beaten several times, and then pepper sprayed in the face.

Watts [URL=http://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=1186]continues to protest his innocence[/URL] but claims that he will accept the outcome of the case:

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