Codiac and Sackville RCMP arrest man in Frosty Hollow after threats with a weapon in Moncton
A section of the 106 around Frosty Hollow was closed off by RCMP on Tuesday morning, as police located and arrested a man in relation to a disturbance in Moncton earlier in the morning.
Sackville and Codiac police had been searching a wide area spanning from Dorchester to Jolicure before locating the 36-year-old man in Frosty Hollow.
Codiac police staff sergeant Dave MacDonnell tells CHMA that the incident began with a call of a disturbance and threats involving a firearm in the Lutz Street area of Moncton at 6:15am. A man and a woman fled the scene before police arrived. The woman was then located and arrested at a hotel on Dieppe Blvd.
“The investigation then led police to believe that the male suspect was located in the region surrounding Sackville and Dorchester, including Wood Point and Jolicure,” says MacDonnell. The RCMP issued warnings on social media about the operation, but did not issue an Alert Ready message, which would go directly to cell phones in designated areas.
“The situation did not meet the criteria for a radio alert or an Alert Ready message,” says MacDonnell. “However, police were ready to issue one should there have been a need.”
Police did alert the Anglophone East School District of the operation at around 10:30am, and schools in Sackville and Dorchester were put on “hold and secure” until the operation was complete, shortly after 11am.… Continue
Pottie now represented by Toronto-Saint John criminal lawyer Nathan Gorham
The two men accused of murdering Jamie Leard on May 25 last year were in court recently for a pre-trial conference.
Sean Patrick Patterson is being represented by New Brunswick lawyer Jason Dempsey. A New Brunswick legal aid lawyer, Sylvain Pelletier, was listed as representing Henry Alexander Joseph Pottie as recently as March 7, but Pottie’s file has been transferred to another lawyer, Nathan Gorham, according to Pelletier.
There is a Nathan Gorham practicing law in New Brunswick with Gorham Vandebeek LLP, with offices in Saint John and Toronto. CHMA has reached out to Gorham for comment.
He recently represented Matthew Raymond, who in November was found not criminally responsible for the shooting deaths of four Fredericton residents in 2018.
Gorham’s website bio says his practice focuses on complex criminal trials and appeals. He has co-authored a textbook on prosecuting and defending drug cases, and is also an adjunct professor at the University of New Brunswick
Patterson and Pottie are charged with the first degree murder of Jamie Leard on May 25, 2021 in Upper Cape, about halfway between Port Elgin and Cape Tormentine.
Their trial is set for just over a year from now, on April 17, 2023. The voir dires for the trial – meaning hearings to look at admissibility of evidence and witnesses – are scheduled to begin on February 6, 2023.
-With files from David Gordon Koch… Continue
Eight people charged in cross-border trafficking investigation
RCMP in Nova Scotia have laid eight charges after concluding what they call a “months-long inter-provincial drug trafficking investigation.”
The police agency issued a news release Friday on social media with details on the arrests, which took place in Sackville and Moncton last week.
The investigation into drug trafficking in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick started in October 2021, and was conducted by the Cumberland County Integrated Street Crime Enforcement Unit (SCEU) in cooperation with the Amherst Police Department and the New Brunswick RCMP’s Sackville detachment. The Cumberland SCEU is a partnership between the Cumberland County District RCMP and Amherst Police Department.
According to the RCMP’s statement, police executed a series of search warrants and enforcement actions in Moncton and Sackville starting Thursday, February 24 and finishing Saturday, February 26, 2022.
The statement goes on:
“Police arrested a number of people and seized cocaine, methamphetamine, psilocybin, prescription drugs, items that could be used to produce cocaine, a handgun with a silencer, a money counter, cash, red and blue “police style” lights and siren, a radio with access to police communications and cellular phones.”
Police have laid a number of firearms and drug charges on eight people from Sackville, Grande-Gigue, Memramcook, and Amherst.
In the Sackville area, Taylor Cole, Colt Leblanc, Brittany Allen, Katherine Johnson, and Cheryl Trenholm have all been charged with various offences.… Continue
Gagné says property crime spree from summer, fall now over
The property crime spree that plagued Sackville and surrounding areas through the summer and fall calmed down in November and December, according to RMCP Sergeant Paul Gagné, presenting to Sackville town council last month.
Gagné was before council to present the Sackville detachment’s quarterly report, analyzing the 370 calls it documented in the three month period.
“The summer and September, October were quite busy with break-ins and thefts,” Gagné told council. “Not only in Sackville, but the whole area and southeast district… The public was generally aware of what I consider a bit of a spree. Especially over the last year, we had a lot of calls, people calling in suspicious things.”
But things took a turn for the better in early winter, said Gagné.
The RCMP report showed that theft under $5000 and break and enter cases doubled compare to the same time period the previous year. There were ten break and enters and 28 thefts under $5000 investigated through the Sackville detachment from October to December 2021.
Gagné told council that it was his impression that the majority of property crime was due to drug use, and dependance on illegal supplies of drugs. “I’ve spoken before about what I think is, in my opinion, driving a lot of the property crime,” said Gagné, specifically naming dependance on illegal supplies of crystal meth as an issue.… Continue
Plea on police assault bumped to Sep 9
A plea on assault charges against Colt Leblanc has been delayed to September 9. LeBlanc appeared by video link in a Moncton courtroom on Thursday represented by Moncton lawyer Michel Des Neiges.
Des Neiges told the court that full disclosure had not been received from the crown on the case. He indicated the disclosure may have been sent to LeBlanc’s first lawyer, Guillaume LeBlanc of Fowler Law. Crown Attorney Justin Hebert told the court he had a letter signed by Colt LeBlanc on June 21 acknowledging receipt of the disclosure, but the court was unable to verify the signature as LeBlanc was present only by video link.
Colt LeBlanc told the court he has not received the disclosure, and has been incarcerated since July 6. He was not sure if Guillaume LeBlanc received the disclosure on his behalf, as he ”only met him for a day.”
In the end the judge ordered the disclosure released and set a date to return to court for a plea on September 9 at 11am. LeBlanc remains in custody until then.
Colt LeBlanc is charged with two counts of assaulting a police officer and one count of obstructing a police officer, related to events alleged to have occurred from January 9 to 12 in the Sackville area.
The Times and Transcript reported in May after LeBlanc’s first appearance that he is, “accused of assaulting Const. Patrick Belliveau with a shovel, resisting three Mounties and assaulting Belliveau and Const.… Continue
Pottie and Patterson to remain in custody until preliminary inquiry in January
Henry Pottie and Shawn Patterson appeared in Moncton court by phone on Monday to set a date for a preliminary inquiry into charges against them. The two are charged jointly with the first degree murder of Jamie Leard in Upper Cape on May 25, 2021.
The week long preliminary hearing will take place starting January 17, and the two men will remain in custody until then.
Pottie is represented by lawyer Sylvain Pelletier, and Patterson by Jason Dempsey.
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The two people charged in the death of Jamie Leard appeared briefly via video conference in a Moncton courtroom on Wednesday.
Neither Sean Patterson nor Henry Pottie had consulted counsel before appearing separately in court to set a date for a preliminary inquiry.
Judge Luc Labonté asked to clear the court twice, so each man could speak with the legal aid lawyer on duty. Afterwards, Patterson and then Pottie asked for more time in order to apply to legal aid for representation. They will return to court on July 7th to set a date for a preliminary enquiry. In the meantime, the two will remain in custody.
Patterson and Pottie are charged with the first degree murder of Jamie Leard on May 25 in Upper Cape, about halfway between Port Elgin and Cape Tormentine.
Police had originally believed Leard was last seen on May 26, but have since updated their statement, saying they now believe Leard was killed on May 25.
Police have yet to identify remains found in the course of their investigation into Leard’s disappearance, and are now waiting on results of DNA testing for a positive identification.
37-year-old Pottie and 28-year-old Patterson were originally charged on Sunday, with renewed paperwork on Wednesday.
The judge told Pottie and Patterson that the charge of first degree murder would come with an automatic judge and jury trial.
Both Pottie and Patterson have no contact orders in place for a list of five people, including each other.… Continue