Sackville resident Chelsea McKenney was in Moncton Provincial court last week to register a plea of not guilty on two charges stemming from an incident that occurred in her Sackville apartment this past summer.
On June 23, a police officer came to McKenney’s home in response to a 911 call reporting a disturbance. After speaking briefly with McKenney and her partner Justin Baird, Constable Mathieu Daigle wound up arresting McKenney, later charging her with resisting arrest and assaulting a police officer. The 31-year-old mother of two spent the night in jail in Shediac, and formal charges were laid in October.
McKenney has been denied assistance from Legal Aid and had no legal representation in court on January 3, but she consulted the court’s duty counsel about her decision to enter her plea on her own. She’s now due back in court in just over one year, on January 20, 2025. McKenney told Judge Paul Duffie that she plans to have a lawyer by then.
The Sackville woman is also pursuing two complaints regarding her treatment in June, one to the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission which she filed herself in August, and one to the Canadian Human Rights Commission which is being filed by Nova Scotia-based PathLegal on her behalf.
McKenney’s CRCC complaint is being investigated by an officer with the RCMP detachment in Richibucto.
