Tag: Sarnia courts
Driver pleads guilty in crash that killed three college classmates
A Windsor college student who reportedly was driving more than 200 kilometres an hour when he crashed in Lambton County in 2019, killing three classmates from India, pleaded guilty to dangerous driving causing death in Sarnia on Wednesday.
Gun-toting man jailed 13 months over night of terror in hospital ER
The two security guards Bradley Kelly pointed a realistic-looking black handgun at the night he stormed into the Sarnia hospital’s emergency room are still haunted by the incident.
Impaired taxi driver put customer at risk, judge says
A woman was heading to Sarnia’s Walmart in the back of a taxi on a Saturday night when the driver, Donald Kemsley, asked if she wanted to drink some alcohol.
Couple sleeping in parked RV outside store startled awake, assaulted
A Toronto couple starting on a cross-continent journey in their RV stopped in at a Sarnia hardware store parking lot to sleep before crossing the border to the U.S.
Officer posing as sales rep collars woman trying to buy $100K SUV with false ID
A Toronto woman caught red-handed by an undercover Sarnia police detective trying to close a $100,000 deal for an SUV from a Sarnia car dealer using someone else’s name drew a suspended sentence and probation Tuesday. Though Crown and defence agreed Jill Zenchyshyn, 42, was only the face of someone else’s sophisticated scheme and didn’t […]
An eight-month crime spree and a seven-month jail sentence
SARNIA – Most of the people Sean Helps victimized over an eight-month drug-fuelled crime spree were Sarnia small-business owners, charities and residents. “For example, the employee at McDonald’s who had her bicycle stolen,” assistant Crown attorney Sarah Carmody said to a Sarnia judge while asking for a seven-month jail sentence. “The loss is felt more […]
Trial looms for Florida man in massive gun bust at Sarnia-Michigan border
A criminal case involving what officials said was one of the largest illegal firearms seizures in recent memory at a Southwestern Ontario-U.S. border crossing could be going to trial soon.
Former coaches at Sarnia gymnastics club drop appeal of discipline ruling
Gymnastics Canada says a high-profile Sarnia gymnastics coach and his wife, also a coach, have withdrawn appeals of 2021 rulings of a discipline panel. The panel had permanently banned Dave Brubaker, a former Canadian Olympic team gymnastics coach and former director with Bluewater Gymnastics in Sarnia, from status with any Gymnastics Canada associations and clubs, […]
Burnt-out brake lamp leads to man’s third impaired-driving conviction
SARNIA – A burnt-out brake lamp led to a man being convicted of impaired driving – for the third time.
Neighbour avoids jail after using blowtorch during fight over gazebo
A dispute between two neighbours that involved a gazebo and the menacing use of a blowtorch will not result in jail time.