Joyriding teen gets probation
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This article was published 30/07/2016 (3591 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A Brandon teenager will spend the next year on probation for his role in stealing a truck that was spotted joyriding throughout Westman last month.
The 16-year-old pleaded guilty to a charge of possessing a stolen motor vehicle in Brandon court this week.
On June 16, a man called police to report his Honda Ridgeline pickup truck had been stolen from his home on 19th Street.
At about noon, the man found the side door of his home was ajar with the truck’s keys missing from inside.
The man had received a call from the Mounties in Boissevain about the truck being used in a gas-and-dash at a station there.
Later that day, a Brandon police officer working at Crocus Plains Regional Secondary School spotted the Ridgeline at the school, and provided investigators with the names of four boys who were in the vehicle.
Then, at about 5 p.m. that day, the truck’s owner and his friends spotted his truck and blocked it in at the 400 block of Fourth Street — holding the occupants at the scene until police arrived.
Officers arrested two 16-year-olds, a 20-year-old and a 24-year-old.
Court heard that the boy, who’ll be going into Grade 11 this fall, was co-operative with police and didn’t drive the truck recklessly.
Duty counsel lawyer Ryan Fawcett asked the court for a conditional discharge for the boy, noting that the boy chose to drive because others in the truck were intoxicated, but admitted to police he knew it was stolen.
Crown attorney Kaley Tschetter said the case is part of an increasing problem with youth stealing or being found in stolen cars.
Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta agreed.
“We have a real problem in this province in terms of stolen vehicles, I don’t know if the numbers are increasing … but certainly we see enough of these situations that the court is concerned about this,” she said.
“If you’re back in front of the court again in the next couple of years, I want the judge to be aware of the fact you’ve been here before,” she told the teen.
The 16-year-old was sentenced to probation for a year, during which time he won’t be allowed to enter a vehicle without the permission of the owner. He’ll also have to do 30 hours of community service work and was warned by Hewitt-Michta not to contact the three with whom he was arrested.
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