Court Report

Jailed for assault, threat, breaches

A Kingston man is off to jail for assault, a threat and probation breaches.

In Kentville provincial court Thursday, Sept. 4, Judge Claudine MacDonald sentenced Bryan Chesley Gibson, 52, to a total of 10 months in custody for assault causing bodily harm, threatening to cause death or bodily harm, and two counts of failing to comply with probation orders.

The assault conviction resulted in a six-month term of custody, taking into consideration six months’ remand credit. The threat brought a further three months, consecutive, while the breaches garnered one month each, concurrent to each other but consecutive to the other sentences.

The judge ordered Gibson to province a DNA sample to Corrections officials and banned him from possessing firearms for life.

Gibson committed the offenses in Kentville April 8. He had been remanded since April 11. The court found him guilty of the charges June 11.

Three times the limit

East Aylesford resident Adrian George Boudreau, 30, pleaded guilty Monday, Sept. 8 to having care and control of a motor vehicle while his blood-alcohol readings exceeded the legal limit.

Judge Alan Tufts fined Boudreau $1,300 plus a $195 victim surcharge, or 23 days in custody on willful default, and prohibited him from driving in Canada for a year.

The Nova Scotia Registry of Motor Vehicles will prohibit Boudreau from driving in the province for at least that long.

Boudreau committed the offense in East Kingston July 26 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 240 and 250 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood, three times the legal limit of 80 mg/100 ml.

Had care and control

Aldershot resident Darren Arthur Douglas Byers, 20, pleaded guilty Sept. 8 to having care and control of a vehicle while his blood-alcohol readings exceeded the 80 mg/100 ml legal limit.

Judge Tufts fined Byers $1,150 plus a $172.50 victim surcharge, or 20 days custody on willful default.

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

Byers committed the offense in Kentville July 27 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 150 and 160 mg/100 ml.

Drove over the blood-alcohol limit

Judge Tufts fined Halifax resident James Allen Keith, 45, $600, or nine days in custody on willful default, for driving while his blood-alcohol readings exceeded the 80 mg/100 ml limit.

Judge Tufts also imposed a one-year, Canada-wide driving ban on Keith, a term the Registry of Motor Vehicles will at least match.

Keith committed the offense in Greenwood June 12 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 140 and 130 mg/100 ml.

Refused to provide breath sample

New Minas resident Troy Daniel Simon, 42, pleaded guilty Sept. 8 to refusing to provide a breath sample for blood-alcohol analysis.

Judge Tufts fined Simon $800, or 12 days in custody on willful default, and prohibited him from driving in Canada for two years. The Registry of Motor Vehicles will at least match that ban.

Simon committed the offense at Sunken Lake June 14.

Fined for thefts

Debra Rosalie Fox, 51, pleaded guilty Sept. 8 to two counts of theft of property valued at less than $5,000.

Judge Tufts fined fox $750, or 11 days in custody on willful default, for the first theft, and $250, or three days, for the second and imposed a term of one-year reporting probation on her.

Probation conditions include Fox taking any recommended assessment, counselling or probation. The judge also ordered Fox to pay $45 in restitution.

Fox committed the first theft at a Greenwood diner between March 8, 2007 and Jan. 30, 2008, and from a person in Greenwood between Dec. 1, 2007 and Jan. 31, 2008.

Defrauded Community Services

Judge MacDonald imposed a term of 18 months’ reporting probation on Kentville resident James Donald Pleasant, 38, Wednesday, Aug. 13 for two counts of defrauding the Community Services Department of less than $5,000.

The probation includes Pleasant taking any recommended assessment, counselling or treatment.

Pleasant committed the frauds in Kentville between Nov. 1, 2004 and Jan. 31, 2007 and April 1, 2006 and Dec. 31, 2006. He pleaded guilty to the frauds May 15.

Drove while privilege revoked

Kentville resident Bonita Patricia Lawlor, 49, pleaded guilty Tuesday, Sept. 2 to driving while her privilege of obtaining a license was revoked, contrary to the Nova Scotia Motor Vehicles Act (MVA).

Judge MacDonald fined Lawlor $1,000 plus a $150 victim surcharge. Lawlor committed the offense in Kentville June 15.

License privilege revoked

Port Williams resident Grant William Lockhart, 54, pleaded guilty Sept. 8 to driving while his privilege or obtaining a license was revoked, contrary to the MVA. Judge Tufts fined Lockhart $750.

Lockhart committed the offense in Kentville June 6.

Privilege suspended

Kentville resident Sarah Lynn MacDonald, 25, pleaded guilty Sept. 2 to driving while her privilege of obtaining a license was suspended, contrary to the MVA.

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

MacDonald committed the offense in north Kentville Oct. 15, 2006.



Suspended license privilege

Kentville resident Richard Vernon Saltzman, 62, pleaded guilty Sept. 8 to driving while his privilege of obtaining a license was suspended, contrary to the MVA.

Judge Tufts fined Saltzman $500, or five days in custody on willful default.

Saltzman committed the offense in Kentville June 25.

Had unstamped smokes

Wolfville resident Ronald Hibbert Baglole, 49, pleaded guilty Sept. 8 to possessing unstamped cigarettes for sale, contrary to the Excise Act. Judge Tufts fend Baglole $510.85.

Baglole committed the offense in Kentville July 31.

Short sentence

Kentville resident John Hank Leander Gibson, 47, pleaded guilty Sept. 4 to failing to comply with a probation order.

Judge MacDonald sentenced Gibson to one day in custody, deemed served by his court appearance.

Gibson committed the breach in Kentville May 4. He had been in remand since June 30.

Stole from store

North Alton resident Nathan Willis Tupper, 18, pleaded guilty Sept. 8 to theft of property valued at less than $5,000. Judge Tufts fined Tupper $50.

Tupper committed the theft in Kentville June 8.

Convicted automatically

Judge Tufts convicted automatically Centreville resident Nichoel Maue Larkin, 26, Sept. 8 of illegal possession of liquor, contrary to the Nova Scotia Liquor Control Act, and fined her $300 plus a $45 victim surcharge and $107 in costs.

Police laid the charge in Prospect July 7.

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Sept. 8, Judge Tufts convicted automatically Brooklyn Street resident Billy Clyde Smith, 33, of driving between 16 and 30 kilometres per hour in excess of the posted speed limit, contrary to the MVA.

The judge fined Smith $150 plus a $22.50 victim surcharge and $107 in costs, and suspended his license between Sept. 8 and 15.

Police laid the charge on Highway 101 near the Ben Jackson Road July 8.