Window smashing leads to jail time
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This article was published 01/04/2022 (1443 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
A man who smashed a business’s window and was found with a lead pipe by police during an arrest was sentenced to time served in jail on Thursday.
Sean Todd, 38, pleaded guilty to several charges, including mischief and resisting arrest from late 2020.
On Dec. 29, 2020, police received a 911 call from a man saying he just saw another man smash out the store windows of the George Strange’s Book Mart on 10th Street, Crown attorney Jonathan Mays told the court.
A witness said she saw Todd go up the window and smash it with a hammer, Mays said. The dispute was reportedly over a damage deposit for an apartment the accused was renting.
A few days later, on Dec. 31, 2020 at approximately 1:30 p.m., police were patrolling in the 500 block of 10th Street when they saw Todd walking on the sidewalk. At the time, Todd had a warrant for an unrelated charge.
Police stopped him, but Todd was “instantly uncooperative,” and officers requested backup.
“He began walking northbound through the intersection obstructing traffic, not complying with police,” Mays said, adding Todd yelled “obscenities” at police.
Officers eventually arrested Todd and found a lead pipe that fell out of his jacket, Mays said.
“That is obviously somewhat concerning.”
Todd also pleaded guilty to missing court on two occasions.
The Crown recommended a sentence of time served in jail for the pipe incident and a suspended sentence for the mischief charge.
Defence lawyer Michael Nerbas said Todd had a “very difficult childhood” in foster care and experienced lots of instability moving around.
Todd has struggled in his interactions with police in the past, Nerbas said, which he said haven’t always been Todd’s fault.
Nerbas asked for an unsupervised probation order, which he said would allow Todd to be “disentangled” from the justice system and the chance to work on himself at his own pace.
Judge Patrick Sullivan said it seems like Todd has issues with law enforcement, something he should reflect on.
“If you don’t change the way you react, you’re going to end up spending more time in custody, and that’s probably not where you want to be,” Sullivan said to Todd.
Sullivan sentenced him 15 days time served for resisting arrest, along with a year of unsupervised probation for breaking the book store’s window and a $200 restitution order to pay for the damage.
He also fined him $100 for failing to attend court.
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