Tag: Sarnia courts
‘I need to go to jail’: Church volunteer sentenced for sexually abusing stepdaughter
A Sarnia-area man, who admitted he needed to go to jail shortly after he was finally caught, was sentenced Tuesday to two years behind bars for sexually abusing his young stepdaughter.
Four years in prison or house arrest? Judge mulls boxer’s fate on sex charges
SARNIA – Crown prosecutors want a Sarnia boxer who briefly went on the lam after being convicted of sex charges linked to a drunk underage girl to spend the next three to four years in prison, while his lawyer is hoping for house arrest.
Recidivist car thief thwarted again – this time by find-my-phone app
SARNIA – Six years ago, it was a hot chocolate that burned Jose Demelo after he stole a car.
Area drug dealer ‘terrified’ by police raid, sentenced to house arrest
SARNIA – Matthew Angus was terrified as police charged into his Watford home armed with a search warrant.
Man jailed one year for unprovoked beating of stranger inside fast-food joint
Sarnia police dispatched to a fast-food chicken chain came across a rather unappetizing sight.
Driver denies knowing he hit young father during hit-and-run trial
SARNIA – Noah Bristol says he went to bed having no idea Clayton Ball had been severely injured.
Police appear to be hunting third suspect in boilermaker’s ‘targeted’ killing
SARNIA – Two suspects linked to the “targeted” killing of a Sarnia tradesman have already been arrested, but police appear to be searching for at least one more suspect in the continually evolving case.
‘Tragedy all around’: Overworked nurse admits to texting before fatal crash
A nurse admitted she sent a text right before the vehicle she was driving on a rural road near Petrolia struck and fatally injured a young mother taking part in a childhood cancer research fundraiser. Melissa Miller’s lawyer said Wednesday in a Sarnia court her client was only texting for a brief moment that Saturday […]
Son pleads guilty to storing his mother’s body in freezer
It’s been a bizarre week in Southwestern Ontario courtrooms with multiple cases involving bodies found in freezers. Chad Reu-Waters, a 48-year-old Haldimand County man, was found guilty by a jury Monday in a St. Thomas courtroom of second-degree murder and indecently offering an indignity to human remains in the death of Ashley Pereira. The 33-year-old […]
Manslaughter charges dropped against parents in baby’s death
Manslaughter charges have been dropped against the parents of a Lambton County infant who died in 2020, but they’re both still facing charges of criminal negligence causing death. Police and paramedics were called to a home on Penrise Street in Mooretown for an unresponsive infant on Nov. 20, 2020. Nine-month-old Tressa MacPherson died that day. […]