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Information is collected solely for the purpose of job selection under the provisions of the Municipal Freedom and Protection of Privacy Act Services Services Custom Hay & Straw Service Cutting, Baling & Wrapping Buying and selling hay & straw Wanted to rent ~ standing hay ground Blake Cardiff Ethel, Ontario Cell 519-357-8407 or 519-887-9867 Individual Baling & Wrapping ~ 3x3 square bales * loader provided Cutting ~ Hesston Steel on Steel Discbine acation propertiesV Please Recycle This Newspaper Weapon charges dropped in two-year-old case Continued from page 6 mail to put it in her wallet and lose it in Innerkip. Uwagboe’s final witness was the arresting officer on the night of April 27, 2010, Const. Jamie Leslie of the Wingham Police. Leslie said he stopped the vehicle being driven by Young at 8:45 p.m. because she was driving approximately 20 kilometres per hour down Wingham’s main street, holding up cars and crossing the centre line several times. Upon pulling the car over, Leslie said Young was “outspoken and confrontational” towards him. Leslie said Young threatened to call the Ombudsman of Ontario to file a complaint and accused him of harassing her, as he had stopped her and written her several tickets one day earlier. Leslie said that on April 26, he came upon Young, who was in a different car than she would be driving on April 27, and he saw her slumped over the steering wheel with an open can of beer in the car. That day he wrote Young citations for being in care of a motor vehicle with an open liquor container and expired registration tags on the car. On April 27, when Leslie pulled Young over, she opened her wallet and he noted that she had several driver’s licences in her wallet. He said he asked her for them and she handed over two of her driver’s licences (one with a Kitchener address and another with a Woodstock address) along with the licences of Albers and Mlotschek. Once he discovered that Mlotschek’s licence had been reported stolen, Leslie said he arrested Young and began to search her car, which is when he found a weapon under the front seat. At first, Leslie said, it appeared to be a SIG Sauer handgun, the same model carried by Wingham Police officers, however, upon further inspection, he found it to be a pellet gun. When Leslie brought Young back to the police station, he said, he found Mlotschek’s credit card in Young’s wallet, as well. Cornish said his client would refute much of what Leslie said when she testified later in the trial and that he forcibly took her wallet from her during the traffic stop and was targetting Young over the course of the two days. Taking the stand, Young said she had no idea how the driver’s licences were taken from their owners, just that she found them in a clear plastic card holder on a beach near Innerkip, where her trailer is located. Young said that she found the items on the beach and placed them on top of her fridge, where they stayed for the winter of 2009/2010, because she had forgotten about them. She then said on the exact day that she was cleaning out her trailer and found the licences and credit card, placing them in her wallet for safe keeping on the way to turn them in, she was stopped by Leslie in Wingham. Young also said that her two meetings with Leslie did not happen as he said they did, calling him a liar. She said that on April 26 she was tired and resting her head on the steering wheel while her boyfriend relieved himself on the side of the road. She admitted that there was an open can of beer in the car, but that it belonged to her boyfriend and that it was empty. On April 27, Young said she was driving compliantly through Wingham while Leslie was monitoring her from a nearby parking lot before driving away and meeting up with her again later on her drive. When Young first found the items on the beach, Uwagboe asked, why didn’t she call the police or VISA to ensure that the owners of the items could be notified, but Young said it didn’t cross her mind. She said she didn’t have a phone at her trailer and the park’s pay phone was “inoperable”. As far as the gun was concerned, Young said it was in a bag in the back seat of her car as she was on her way to a storage unit where she would be placing all of the bags. The gun, which she pointed out can be purchased at Canadian Tire and is perfectly legal, must have fallen out of one of the bags, she said, and slid under the seat. Cornish attempted to make the point in his closing arguments that Young couldn’t have done anything with the items anyway and there was inconclusive evidence linking Young to the theft of the items from both people. However, Hunter said, Young wasn’t charged with theft, but with possession of the items and he was convinced that she was guilty of those charges. He did, however, drop the weapon possession charge, as he said the case was not made that there was any criminal intent behind the weapon and her possession of it. Hunter also said that Uwagboe may have an issue with unlawful search of Young’s vehicle, so the charge was dismissed. Uwagboe, however, called Young’s testimony “complete and utter nonsense” and said there were too many coincidences that didn’t make sense. Hunter said he found Young’s testimony to be “totally lacking in any credibility whatsoever,” he said. “I don’t believe her.” Young’s criminal record was then admitted as evidence and Cornish admitted that Young was certainly “not a rookie” to the justice system, but he pointed out that her previous sentences had been short in nature. Cornish also pointed out that Young had been in custody between June 1 and June 21, so time served should be taken into account, he said. Cornish suggested that jail time of 60 days, with 21 days time served, be considered, whereas Uwagboe suggested a sentence between four and six months. Young was sentenced to five months in jail for the four charges, being found guilty on all four counts. Hunter sentenced Young to six months of probation upon her release. She was instructed to be in good behaviour and keep the peace. A petition with nearly 65 signatures from users and neighbours of the Optimist dog park in Egmondville eased the concern of Huron East Council after some complaints had been received. At the July 17 meeting the petition was presented to council. This came two weeks after council’s July 3 meeting where Elizabeth House led a delegation of three of the park’s neighbours who were unhappy with several aspects of the park. House, who was present at the July 17 meeting, led the July 3 delegation, saying the park has caused many issues in their lives including parking, noise and sour attitudes from those who frequent the dog park, which was created years ago by the local chapter of the Optimists. House said the barking of dogs around the park is continuous throughout the day and there is no relief. She said those who use the park have no respect for the posted times of usage and for the people who live around the park. “I’ve been told I’d have a 20 to 30 per cent loss [of value] on my property because of the park,” House said. “I’m not willing to take that loss. I think it’s unfair.” House said she is currently completing a university course online that requires study time and peace and quiet, something she feels she doesn’t get living so close to the dog park. However, the petition presented on July 17 included comments from both users and neighbours, all of them stating that they had no problem with the park and that it is a good thing for the community and users of the park. Before proponents of the park made a full presentation, Mayor Bernie MacLellan stopped the presentation, saying that he found the park’s opponents to be unreasonable and unwilling to compromise and council had no plans to close the park or alter it in any way. At the July 3 meeting, Councillor Bill Siemon recalled when the park was first discussed with council, saying that he thought the Optimists were supposed to be policing and maintaining the park as required. MacLellan said it was the Optimists who had originally requested a dog park and Siemon said council should write the club a letter, stating that some residents aren’t happy with the park. A representative for the Optimists, who was in attendance at the July 3 meeting, said the club had been considering dividing the park in half, which would reduce the amount of space for dogs, but the original intent was that the other half would be a bike park for area children. Councillor Nathan Marshall, as well as several other councillors, disagreed with House and the other delegates, saying that any time they had been at the park, those using the park had been respectful and quiet and that the barking is far from constant. The comment was also made that Council hears park complaints By Shawn Loughlin The Citizen Continued on page 17