4 days after arrest: Venezuelan gets 9 years for AK rifles
A Venezuelan national, held in Debe on Friday with four AK rifles and 11 AK magazines, was sentenced to nine years in prison with hard labour on Monday.
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A Venezuelan national, held in Debe on Friday with four AK rifles and 11 AK magazines, was sentenced to nine years in prison with hard labour on Monday.
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The Crown was originally proceeding by Indictment against Leschinski, which is the more serious charge. Prosecutor Scott Bartlett, however, told the court that Leschinski’s parents offered to pay to send him to a drug treatment centre - The Village of Hope - in New Brunswick. Bartlett said that since the Crown had proceeded by indictment, Leschinski wouldn’t qualify for a Conditional Sentence Order (CSO) to be served in the community, allowing him to go to the drug treatment centre. So, to facilitate this, Bartlett asked the court to expunge Leschinski’s guilty pleas so the Crown could...