Boy accused in Brandon Transit bus crash back in court after another arrest
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This article was published 20/10/2017 (2923 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
After being released Wednesday following charges for breaching a recognizance, the 12-year-old boy accused of crashing a car into a Brandon Transit bus found himself in front of the court again Thursday for breaching the same conditions.
Crown attorney Kaley Tschetter told Brandon provincial court the boy was arrested for breaching the conditions of his recognizance less than an hour after he was released.
The accused cannot be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
The boy, who could barely see over the side of the prisoner’s box when sitting down, scoffed as the Crown read out his bail conditions, covering his mouth and saying “bulls—t” when Tschetter reached the conditions not to be in the possession of weapons.
In addition to a weapons prohibition, the boy must also enter into a $500 personal recognizance, reside in his assigned childcare facility and follow the rules, attend school regularly and stay out of the driver’s seat of any vehicles.
When told he was also not to have contact with another youth facing unrelated charges, the boy interrupted proceedings asking why.
“Because when you two are together you keep getting into trouble,” Judge Donovan Dvorak said.
“Jail is no place for a 12-year-old … I’m sure you’d rather be at home with the people who want to take care of you,” Dvorak continued. “But people who continually ignore court orders will find themselves sitting in jail until their charges are dealt with.”
The boy has a history of criminal incidents and is a frequent runaway and ward of Child and Family Services, as chronicled previously by the Winnipeg Free Press.
His extensive rap sheet includes arson, car thefts, possession of drugs and weapons, robberies, assaults, uttering threats and a near-fatal stabbing.
In each case, the boy couldn’t be charged because the Youth Criminal Justice Act doesn’t apply to children under 12.
The boy is facing his first charges after taking a stolen vehicle for a joyride on Oct.6 — ultimately running a red light and smashing into the side of a Brandon Transit bus, forcing it off the road and into the front of a building downtown.
The boy is due back in court in November.
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