A 20-year-old man who picked a fight with a plumbing van and then its owner received a year’s probation on Monday.
Trevor Keith Deleeuw pleaded guilty to single counts of assault and uttering threats and was handed the year of probation as part of a suspended sentence.
Deleeuw was at house party in St. Albert on June 20 last year, when after an argument with his girlfriend, he stormed outside and walked across the street.
When he reached the other side he found a plumbing van and punched its door.
The owner happened to be outside and went over to confront Deleeuw. The pair argued and Deleeuw struck the man.
One of Deleeuw’s friends from the party came outside and got into the fray and continued hitting the man after Deleeuw abandoned the fight.
Deleeuw also threatened to hit the man again after he left the altercation.
Judge Brian Fraser made it part of Deeleuw’s probation that he take any counselling for alcohol and anger management that his probation officer recommends. He is forbidden from having any contact with his victim. A DNA sample was also requested.
The suspended sentence allows Fraser to re-sentence Deeleuw if he violates his probation order.
A marijuana grow-op busted last year in a police raid appears to have been more about pain management than profit.
Carla Beth Goguen, 52, who was originally charged with production and trafficking in a controlled substance, pleaded guilty to simple possession of marijuana and received a $200 fine and a year’s probation.
RCMP officers searched Goguen’s home and found nine marijuana plants growing in two rooms in the house.
The plants were very large and had been spread out, which does not usually happen in commercial operations.
Federal Crown prosecutor Kevin Short said while the plants were large, they would not have sustained a commercial trafficking operation.
Defence lawyer George Isshak said Goguen suffers from fibromyalgia, a disease that causes severe pain.
He said Goguen was using the marijuana to treat her symptoms but had not followed the appropriate steps. He said she has since found other ways to manage her pain.
Goguen said she acted inappropriately. “I apologize to the court for breaking the law in this way.”
Goguen had a previous conviction for trafficking, but Isshak explained she had been buying for herself and had simply purchased a little more for someone who had asked her.
Short and Isshak proposed a sentence that included only a fine, but Judge Jeanne Burch suggested she wanted the year of probation because of Goguen’s previous conviction.
She will have to take any counselling she is directed to and will have to report regularly to her probation officer.
Short also withdrew charges against another resident of the house who was arrested at the time of the raid.
