H.P. court docket
Jan. 8, 2018
Judge G.R. Ambrose

A second charge of impaired driving in just over five years has cost a young woman big bucks and taken her off the road for an extended time.
Angel J. Noskeyi, of Red Earth, was fined $1,500, plus a victim fine surcharge of $450, for driving a vehicle with a blood-alcohol content over 80 mg when she appeared in High Prairie provincial court Jan. 8.
She was stopped by High Prairie RCMP on Oct. 10, 2017 when a vehicle was swerving all over the road, Crown prosecutor Petter Hurich says.
Her breath samples indicated readings of 120 mg.
The impaired charge was her second since 2015, the Crown says.
“It’s now becoming a pattern,” Judge G.R. Ambrose says.
Noskeyi was further suspended from driving for two years.
Duty counsel Harry Jong says she was with a friend drinking at a bar and then got “tipsy” and decided to drive home.
She was also fined $300, plus a victim fine surcharge of $90, for failing to appear in court.
Hurich says the Crown usually recommends jail time for the second impaired office within five years, although Noskeyi was convicted just outside that timeframe.

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Greg Glen Auger, 27, of Gift Lake, was fined $200, plus a victim fine surcharge of $60, for breaching conditions and $100, plus a victim fine surcharge of $30, for breaching probation.
Auger failed to report to his probation officer and bail supervisor on separate dates as requested, the Crown says.
“He didn’t report because he was in the firefighting process to become a firefighter,” duty counsel Jong says.

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Pearl Giroux was handed a 12-month suspended sentence for assault.
She was intoxicated at a residence in Driftpile with her young adult son on Sept. 5 when they got into an argument over a photo she did not want to give to him, the Crown says.
“She grabbed a letter opener and threatened the victim, but she did not carry through,” Hurich says.
“She has managed to stay out of trouble for seven years and she is willing to address her problems.”
Giroux was placed on probation on condition to get alcohol assessment and treatment, stay away from her victim son, not to consume alcohol off her property, banned from establishments where liquor is primarily sold for retail.
“She was planning to take alcohol counseling anyway,” lawyer Allan Crawford says.
However, the judge reminded Giroux of her poor record of probation.
“She has 12 previous convictions of breach of probation,” the judge says.
“If you breach again, you’ll likely go to jail.”

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Patrick Letendre, 25, of Whitefish, was sentenced to 35 days in jail for possession of a weapon and seven days consecutive for mischief on property.
He was given full credit for time served.
Letendre became involved in an altercation with a group of people on Dec. 11 and went to his truck to get a shotgun he says was not loaded, the Crown states.
The people fled the scene when he revealed the gun.
When he was arrested by police days later, “he became belligerent” and kicked the vehicle and the windows, but caused no damage, Hurich says.
Letendre was warned that the firearms incident had potential to be more serious.
“This could have resulted in a severe escalation,” Ambrose says.
“What if his belief that the gun was empty were wrong?”
Letendre was banned from using or owning firearms for two years.