Man put on probation for episode with butter knife
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This article was published 31/07/2025 (240 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A Brandon man who was caught stabbing the ground with a butter knife in front of a Rosser Avenue business received one year of supervised probation on Thursday.
Nathan Salateski pleaded guilty in Brandon provincial court to the charges of possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose and resisting a peace officer.
Salateski represented himself in court, and while he said he had no issue pleading to the charges and dealing with the matter, he clarified that the weapon was “just a butter knife” and he was only trying to etch something into the cement — not stab it.
The Brandon courthouse entrance on 11th Street. (Matt Goerzen/The Brandon Sun files)
Crown attorney Colin Standish said Brandon Police Service received a complaint on April 17 that a man was inside the vestibule of a business on Rosser Avenue and was acting erratically.
Standish said he was hallucinating and yelled that he was going to kill someone. The staff locked the door to prevent him from coming inside the building.
“He started to stab at the cement with a knife,” Standish said. “Police attempted to place him in custody … and the accused began to fight police.”
The officer managed to gain control and took him into custody.
Standish said police took photos of the knife — and confirmed it was, in fact, a butter knife — and said officers thought Salateski was experiencing either mental health issues or drug-induced psychosis.
The Crown recommended a suspended sentence, which means the sentence is put off and the accused would receive probation instead.
“It’s not punitive in nature, but an opportunity for rehabilitation was our intention,” Standish said.
Salateski didn’t suggest a sentence and had nothing else to add, but Judge Shauna Hewitt-Michta asked him a series of questions that revealed he has been living on the streets in Brandon with no supports in place.
“I’m going to put you on probation because I want to make sure that there is some help in place for you,” she said.
She told him he will need to report to probation and said, “There are lots of good people who work there that will help you and work with you.”
Hewitt-Michta included a few conditions, including that he take any counselling, treatments, programming or assessments that probation tells him to, and not to possess any knives unless it is for the immediate consumption or preparation of food.
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