Gang member sentenced for role in riot
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This article was published 09/07/2010 (5786 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Another Native Syndicate street gang member has been sentenced to jail for his role in October’s riot at the Brandon jail.
Court heard that Kelsey Sumner, 20, had only been at the jail for two days before the riot broke out.
Rioting inmates transferred from the Winnipeg area were upset they had trouble reaching their lawyers and family, didn’t like the food and the unit they were in was slightly overcrowded, court heard.
“The way to complain isn’t by trashing the premises that you’re living in,” Judge Krystyna Tarwid told Sumner after he pleaded guilty in Brandon court yesterday.
The Oct. 4 disturbance that involved 27 Native Syndicate members began when one inmate threw a chair at a correctional officer.
The riot spread over two subunits and the damage included a fire and a hole broken in the wall between subunits, allowing prisoners to flow from one subunit to the other.
A hole was also broken in an external wall, but no one escaped.
The total damage tallied for the four-hour riot is $45,000, with another $44,000 spent on overtime and wages for corrections officers.
Sumner was one of a number of inmates who placed phone calls to contacts outside of the jail during the disturbance. The calls were recorded.
“We’re just having fun right now,” Sumner said during his phone call, indicating that he was trying to get out of Brandon.
Defence lawyer Scott Newman said Sumner, a Winnipeg resident, was transferred to the Brandon jail from Headingley two days before the disturbance.
He was on remand waiting to deal with unrelated matters at the time of the riot, but in December he was sentenced to 3 1/2 years in prison, time he has been serving at Stony Mountain penitentiary.
Yesterday, Judge Tarwid sentenced Sumner to one year in jail for the Brandon riot, a sentence that will follow his current prison term.