Court Report

Jailed for thefts, breaches

The court has sent a north Kentville man to jail for two counts of theft from businesses and two probation breaches.

In Kentville provincial court Wednesday, July 23, Judge Alan Tufts imposed 10-day sentences on Cody James Taylor, 19, for each of the thefts and failures to comply with probation conditions. The sentences will be served concurrently.

Taylor committed the first theft and breach at a Kentville grocery store April 22 and the second theft and breach at a New Minas department store July 22.

He pleaded guilty to the first two charges July 14 and the second pair July 23.

Breach nets jail

Habitant resident Jason Leo McKay, 32, pleaded guilty July 23 to failing to comply with a recognizance condition. Judge Tufts sentenced McKay to 15 days in custody.

McKay committed the breach in Port Williams between July 9 and 13.

Custody for probation breach

In court July 23, Judge Tufts sentenced New Minas resident Nathan Richard Eagles, 25, to 14 days in custody for failing to comply with a probation order.

Eagles committed the breach in New Minas April 19 and pleaded guilty to the charge May 20.

Probation, fine for assault

Judge Tufts imposed a term of nine months’ reporting probation July 23 on Greenwood resident Barry Jack Fredericks, 40, and fined him $250, or three days in custody on willful default, for assault causing bodily harm.

Probationary conditions include that Fredericks have no contact with a specific person.

The judge also ordered Fredericks to provide a DNA sample to Corrections officials.

Fredericks committee the assault in New Minas Feb. 17, 2007 and pleaded guilty to the charge the following July 30. He subsequently applied to have the guilty plea struck, but failed to return to court for the hearing and then withdrew the application.

Found guilty of breathalyzer offense

Judge Tufts found Cambridge resident Julian Anuella Cave, 50, guilty July 23 of driving while his blood-alcohol level exceeded the legal limit.

The judge fined Cave $600, or nine days in custody on willful default, and prohibited him from driving in Canada for a year, a period the Nova Scotia Registry of Motor Vehicles will at least match.

The judge provided, however, that Cave would be eligible to apply for an ignition interlock device for his vehicle at the end of the first three months of the prohibition.

Cave committed the offense in Kentville July 21, 2007 when police found he had blood-alcohol readings of 100 and 100 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres of blood. The legal limit is 80 mg/100 ml.