Windsor Court Report

CSO terminated after convictions

A Windsor man will spend almost a year in custody following a breach of his 15-month conditional sentence order (CSO) after just over two months.

James Arthur Wood, 19, pleaded guilty in Windsor provincial court Tuesday, Sept. 11 to assaulting a police officer in the execution of duties; threatening to cause death or bodily harm to a police officer; causing damage to a police car window, all under the Criminal Code; and possession of less than 30 grams of cannabis marijuana, a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Judge Claudine MacDonald sentenced Wood to one day in custody deemed served by the court appearance for the assault, threat and damage, but to seven days in jail for the CDSA conviction. The sentence is to be served consecutively with his remaining time on the CSO.

Wood committed the latest series of offenses in Windsor Aug. 5 and had been remanded since Aug. 5.

The Sept. 11 convictions constituted breaches of the CSO Wood had received May 28, 2007 for failing to comply with an undertaking not to enter a drinking establishment; two counts of trafficking in methylenedioxyamphetamine, a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act; possession of cannabis marijuana, a Schedule II drug under the Act; failing to comply with a probation order not to enter a drinking establishment; and failing to comply with a court undertaking.

Wood committed the first offense listed Jan. 21, and the others during March.

Judge MacDonald terminated the CSO, sending Wood to jail to serve the remaining 355 days of it.

Jailed for recognizance failure

The court has imposed a jail sentence on a Hantsport man for a recognizance breach.

Brandon Matthew Crewe, 25, pleaded guilty Friday, Sept. 7 to failing to comply with a recognizance order to remain at his residence at all times.

Judge Alan Tufts sentenced Crewe to two weeks in custody for the breach.

Crewe committed the breach at Mount Denson Sept. 4. He had been in custody from the date of the offense.

Threatened, obstructed police

Dartmouth resident Charles Ray Wood, 24, pleaded guilty Sept. 11 to uttering a death threat to a police officer, obstructing a police officer in the execution of duties, and possession of less than 30 grams of cannabis marijuana, a Schedule II drug under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

Wood had also pleaded guilty July 6 to two counts of failing to comply with a probation order.

Judge Tufts suspended sentencing on Wood for the Criminal Code offenses and imposed a term of 12 months of reporting probation.

Among the probationary conditions, Wood must take whatever assessment, counselling or treatment Corrections officials recommend; that he refrain from association with anyone with a criminal, youth or drug record; and refrain from possessing and/or consuming alcoholic beverages and/or non-medically prescribed drugs.

Wood committed the first probationary breach in Dartmouth Dec. 8, 2005 to April 25, 2006, when he failed to report to Corrections supervisors; the threat and obstruction and CDSA offenses in Windsor, Dec. 15; and the second probation breach in Dartmouth Jan. 1, 2006 when he failed to refrain from possession and/or consuming alcoholic beverages and/or non-medically prescribed drugs.

Short sentence for breaches

Belmont resident Matthew Joseph Griffin, 34, pleaded guilty Sept. 7 to two counts of failing to comply with probation orders.

Judge Tufts accepted a joint recommendation from the Crown and defense counsels and imposed a sentence of one day in custody deemed served by his court appearance on Griffin.

The accused committed the breaches in Scotch Village Aug. 29 when he failed to refrain from possessing and consuming alcoholic beverages and failed to stay away from the residence of a specific person as ordered.

In other court matters

Walton resident Arnold Calvin Taylor, 36, pleaded guilty Sept. 11 to catching and retaining more than the daily quota of 10 flounder groundfish allowed under the Atlantic Fishing Regulations, contrary to the Fisheries Act.

Judge MacDonald fined Taylor $200 plus a $30 victim surcharge, or three days in custody on willful default.

Taylor committed the offense in Bramber July 15.