Windsor Court Report

Jailed for threat, breaches

A man whose permanent address is unknown will be in jail for the next while.

In Windsor provincial court Friday, Sept. 21, Judge Alan Tufts sentenced Joseph Christopher James Murley, 20, to three months in custody each for uttering a threat to do bodily harm to a person’s parents, failing to comply with a probation order to be of good behaviour, and failing to comply with a recognizance order to be of good behaviour.

The sentences will be served concurrently and will be followed by 18 months of probation.

Murley committed the offenses at Three Mile Plains Aug. 30 and pleaded guilty to the charges Sept. 7.

Threat results in jail sentence

Upper Vaughn resident Eric Arnold Hubley, 26, pleaded guilty Tuesday, Sept. 25 to uttering a threat by telephone to cause death or bodily harm to a person.

Judge Claudine MacDonald sentenced Hubley to one month in custody, to be served concurrent to any other. Hubley uttered the threat in Windsor July 24.

Breathalyzer nets jail time

Judge MacDonald sentenced Windsor resident James Lewis Bennett, 62, to 14 days in custody Sept. 25 for having care and control of a motor vehicle while his blood-alcohol level exceeded the legal limit.

Bennett committed the offense in Windsor Sept. 15, 2006 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 140 and 130 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood.

The legal limit is 80 mg/100 ml.

Bennett pleaded guilty to the offense March 30. Upon the guilty plea, the court prohibited him from driving in Canada for two years, a ban the Nova Scotia Registry of Motor Vehicles will at least match.

Drove with illegal level

Falmouth resident Bradley Michael Allen, 29, pleaded guilty Sept. 25 to driving while his blood-alcohol level exceeded the 80 mg/100ml limit.

Judge MacDonald fined Allen $850 plus a $127.50 surcharge, or 16 days in custody on willful default, and prohibited him from driving in Canada for a year.

The Registry of Motor Vehicles will ban Allen from driving in Nova Scotia for at least a year.

Allen committed the offense in Windsor Sept. 2 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 160 and 160 mg/110 ml.

Refused to provide breath sample

Scotch Village resident Doris Marie Paige, 39, pleaded guilty of refusing to provide a breath sample for analysis.

Judge MacDonald fined Paige $850 or 13 days in custody on willful default, and prohibited her from driving in Canada for a year. The Registry of Motor Vehicles will at least match that ban.

Paige committed the refusal in Clarksville July 27.

Costly cigarettes

Kennetcook resident Kendall Clayton Hill, 50, pleaded guilty to possession, selling or offering unstamped manufactured tobacco, cigarettes, contrary to the Excise Act.

Judge MacDonald fined Hill $3,366. Hill committed the offense at Sweets Corner June 8.

Fined for contact

Judge MacDonald found Newport resident David Ralph Croft, 33, guilty Sept. 25 of failing to comply with a probation order and fined him $100 plus a $15 victim surcharge, or one day in jail on willful default.

Croft committed the breach March 21 when he failed to have no contact with a specific person.

In other court matters

Judge MacDonald fined Windsor resident Jena Irene Beals, 21, $100 Sept. 25 for illegal possession of liquor, contrary to the Nova Scotia Liquor Control Act.

The court had convicted Beals automatically Sept. 17, but she requested a remission of penalty.

The usual penalty is $300 plus a $45 victim surcharge and $100 in costs. Beals committed the offense in Wolfville Aug. 18.