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Loud music, alcohol and poor decision-making led to a very brief jail stint and a fine for a local man.

Loud music, alcohol and poor decision-making led to a very brief jail stint and a fine for a local man.

Quintin Gregory Dawes pleaded guilty to one count of resisting a police officer and was handed a $350 fine, but not before he was given some time to think about his actions.

Before passing sentence, Judge Brian Frasier asked Dawes if he had anything to say about his actions. When Dawes replied no, Frasier had him placed in custody to think of a better response.

Dawes was taken into the courtroom’s cell area for about 90 minutes and came back with more to say.

Police were called to Dawes’ apartment around 1 a.m. on Oct. 19 because of a noise complaint. When the officer arrived in the building’s parking lot he could already hear the music before even stepping into the building.

He could even identify the song as Guns n’ Roses’ Welcome to the Jungle. Inside the building the sound was loud enough that when the officer placed his hands on the wall he could feel the vibrations.

The officer asked Dawes to turn the music down and said the visit would constitute a warning. The officer told Dawes if had to return he would issue a ticket.

Fuelled by alcohol, Dawes told the officer he should just write him the ticket.

He then proceeded to berate the officer and encouraged his father in the apartment to get a video camera to capture the incident.

Dawes pushed the camera into the officer’s face and when the officer called for backup, he told him that coming alone was his first mistake.

When other officers arrived they made the decision to arrest Dawes for mischief, but when one of the officers tried to grab his arm, Dawes pulled it away.

When Dawes emerged from his brief stay in the courtroom’s cells, he told Frasier he regretted everything he had done that night. Dawes said the incident had forced him to examine his drinking and he had been sober since.

“I am sorry about what happened and it won’t happen again,” he said.

Dawes initially entered his guilty plea early in the day, but Frasier kept him in custody until there were no more matters on the court’s docket and added the fine as well as a $50 victim surcharge.

Ignoring his probation officer’s direction cost a young man $1,000 and earned him a stern warning from the bench.

Tyler Calderaro pleaded guilty to one count of breaching his probation.

Calderaro was put on probation in March and ordered to attend any counselling his probation officer recommended. His probation officer set up a course for anger management in July, but Calderaro never attended.

He was given a second chance to go back to the program, but again skipped it in August. In both cases, Calderaro told his probation officer he had to go to work.

Before fining him, Judge Brian Frasier told Calderaro he was upset by the young man’s apparent disregard for his probation officer’s direction.

Frasier also imposed a $50 victim surcharge and gave Calderaro until mid-April to pay both fines, while also making it clear there would be no extensions.

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