Court Report

CSO terminated

The court has terminated a Kentville woman’s conditional sentence order (CSO) and sent her to jail for the remainder of the term.

Tona Lisa Mills, 36, admitted in Kentville provincial court Monday, July 14 that she breached her nine-month CSO.

Judge Alan Tufts terminated the CSO and ordered her to jail for the remaining time, more than five months.

Mills breached the order on or about July 5 by being away from her residence beyond the conditions of her house arrest.

The court had imposed the CSO March 20 for a number of offenses including assaults committed in the Valley area earlier this year.

Jailed for CSO breach

Kentville resident Carson Lee Bezanson, 23, admitted July 14 to breaching a conditional sentence order.

Judge Tufts suspended the CSO for 10 days with Bezanson in custody.

The court imposed the six-month CSO April 24 for a number of probation and undertaking breaches committed earlier this year.

Bezanson committed the CSO breach on or about July 4 by consuming alcoholic beverages and initiating contact with a specific person.

Fine, probation for high readings

Cambridge resident Steven Charles Mailman, 30, pleaded guilty July 14 to driving while his blood-alcohol readings were well over twice the legal limit.

Judge Tufts fined Mailman $800 plus a $120 victim surcharge, or 14 days in custody on willful default, and imposed a term of one-year reporting probation on him.

Other probationary conditions include Mailman refraining from possessing or consuming alcoholic beverages and taking any recommended assessment, counselling or treatment.

The judge also prohibited Mailman from driving in Canada for a year, a ban the Nova Scotia Registry of Motor Vehicles will at least match.

Mailman committed the offense in Kentville May 31 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 220 and 220 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.

The legal limit is 80 mg/100 ml, and the Criminal Code allows courts to impose heavier penalties in those breathalyzer-related cases in which readings exceed 160 mg/100 ml.

Had care and control

Canning resident Cameron Austin Lewis, 70, pleaded guilty to having care and control of a vehicle while his blood-alcohol readings came in at twice the 80-mg/100-ml limit.

Judge Tuft fined Lewis $750 plus a $112.50 victim surcharge, or 13 days in custody on willful default.

He also prohibited Lewis from driving in Canada for a year. The Motor Vehicles Registry will ban him from driving in the province for at least as long.

Lewis committed the offense in Canning June 3 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 210 and 220 mg/100 ml.

Fine, prohibition for care and control

Cambridge resident Deven Richard William Dalton, 20, pleaded guilty July 14 to having care and control of a motor vehicle while his blood-alcohol readings exceeded the 80-mg/100-ml limit.

Judge Tufts fined Dalton $950 plus a $142.50 victim surcharge, or 16 days in custody on willful default. He also prohibited Dalton from driving in Canada for a year.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles will ban Dalton from driving in the province for at least two years.

Dalton committed the offense in Coldbrook May 18 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 170 and 170 mg/100 ml.

More than twice the limit

Kingsport resident Elise Gisele Lessard, 23, pleaded guilty July 14 to driving while her blood-alcohol readings exceeded the 80-mg/100-ml limit.

Judge Tufts fined Lessard $800 plus a $120 victim surcharge, or 14 days in custody on willful default.

The judge also prohibited Lessard from driving in Canada for a year, a ban the Motor Vehicles Registry will at least match in the province.

Lessard committed the offense in Kentville May 16 when police found she had blood-alcohol readings of 180 and 170 mg/100 ml.

Drove with illegal readings

Mahone Bay, Lunenburg County resident Darrell Robert Labradore pleaded guilty July 14 to driving while his blood-alcohol readings exceeded the 80-mg/100-ml limit.

Judge Tufts fined Labradore $800 plus a $120 victim surcharge, or 14 days in custody on willful default, and prohibited him from driving in Canada for a year.

The Motor Vehicles Registry will ban him from driving in the province for at least a year.

Labradore committed the offense in Kentville May 31 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 160 and 170 mg/100 ml.

Failed breathaylzer

Berwick resident Andrew Allan MacLeod, 46, pleaded guilty July 14 to driving while his blood-alcohol readings exceeded the 80-mg/100-ml limit.

Judge Tufts fined MacLeod $700 plus a $105 victim surcharge, or 12 days in custody on willful default, and prohibited him from driving in Canada for a year, a period the Motor Vehicles Registry will at least match.

MacLeod committed the offense in Parrsboro May 1 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 120 and 120 mg/100 ml.

Fined for breach

Berwick resident Scott Royce Kenneally, 22, pleaded guilty July 14 to failing to comply with a probation order.

Judge Tufts fined Kenneally $250 plus a $37.50 victim surcharge, or four days in custody on willful default. Kenneally committed the breach in Berwick June 1.

Breached probation

Berwick resident Gary Walter Wentzell, 43, pleaded guilty July 14 to failing to comply with a probation order.

Judge Tufts fined Wentzell $250 plus a $37.50 victim surcharge, or four days in custody on willful default. Wentzell committed the breach in Kentville May 31.

Granted conditional discharge

Judge Tufts granted Jeffery Michael Cleveland, 19, a conditional discharge July 14 on a charge of committing mischief. The discharge is pending one-month probation and a $200 charitable donation to the Red Door.

The charge resulted from a May 28 incident in which damage costing less than $5,000 was done to a Kentville property. Cleveland pleaded guilty to the charge July 14.