Windsor Court Report

Jailed for driving offenses

The court has sent a Halifax county man to jail for driving offenses.

Sheet Harbour resident Scott St. Clair Josey, 27, pleaded guilty in Windsor provincial court Tuesday, July 31 to failing to stop within reasonable time while pursued by police, driving in a manner dangerous to the public, and failing to comply with a recognizance order to keep the peace and be of good behaviour.

Judge Claudine MacDonald sentenced Josey to 80 days in custody for each of the offenses, to be served concurrently.

Judge MacDonald prohibited Josey from driving in Canada for one year, plus 80 days for the dangerous driving conviction.

Josey committed the offenses in Falmouth July 27.



Array of crimes net jail time

The court has jailed a Halifax man for an array of crimes he committed in Hants and Kings counties from last summer to January of this year.

Charles Timothy Leo Symonds, 45, pleaded guilty in Kentville provincial court Tuesday, July 31 to assaulting a police officer in the execution of duties and to uttering a threat to cause death to a person.

He had pleaded guilty July 16 to failing to appear as ordered for identification, theft of property valued at less than $5,000 from a drugstore, failure to comply with an undertaking, and two counts of theft from supermarkets.

Judge Alan Tufts sentenced Symonds to one month in custody each -- consecutive to each other and to any other sentence being served -- for the assault and threat.

The judge sentenced the accused to one month concurrent for each of the other offenses.

Symonds had been remanded by consent since January.

Symonds committed the first theft at a Windsor supermarket July 10, 2006; the second theft at a New Minas supermarket Sept. 8; the drugstore theft and the undertaking breach in Greenwood, Dec. 19; the failure to appear for identification, New Minas, Jan. 2, 2007; and the assault and death threat, Kingston, Jan. 4.

Threat begets probation

Judge MacDonald suspended sentencing July 31 on Brooklyn resident Jonathan Clark, 45, for a conviction of uttering a death threat and imposed a term of one-year reporting probation on him.

Probationary terms include, among others, Clark taking assessment, counselling or treatment recommended by Corrections officials; refraining from initiating contact with the victim; and bans on possessing and or consuming alcoholic beverages and or non-medically-prescribed drugs.

Clark uttered the threat in Brooklyn May 19.

Misled police, breached probation

Judge Tufts fined Gypsum Mines resident David Leroy Cyr, 19, $150 plus a $22.50 victim surcharge, or two days in custody on willful default, for willfully obstructing a police officer in execution of duties by giving a false name during a weapons possession investigation.

The judge also fined Cyr $100 plus a $15 victim surcharge, or one day, for failing to comply with a probation order not to associate with individuals with criminal, youth or drug records.

The penalties were joint recommendations by Crown prosecutor William Fergusson and defense counsel Karen Armour.

Cyr committed the offenses in Windsor Nov. 13, 2006. He pleaded guilty to the charges June 19.

Drove while license suspended

Upper Rawdon resident Matthew Ryan White, 27, pleaded guilty July 31 to driving while his license was suspended, contrary to the Nova Scotia Motor Vehicles Act.

Judge MacDonald fined White $500 plus a $75 victim surcharge.

White committed the offense in Brooklyn Jan. 21.