P.E.I. man sentenced for leaving store while wearing stolen clothes
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Making an attempt on garments in a retailer after which leaving whereas nonetheless sporting them with out paying has led to jail time for a P.E.I. man.
Connor Lloyd Jenkins, 30, pleaded responsible on April 6 to theft below $5,000 and was sentenced in provincial court docket in Charlottetown.
Crown lawyer Jeff MacDonald informed the court docket that Jenkins dedicated the theft on the Boathouse clothes retailer on the Royalty Crossing shopping center on Nov. 29. Jenkins entered the shop and mentioned hey to a workers member he knew from highschool. Jenkins went right into a change room with gadgets of clothes.
Whereas the workers member was talking to a buyer, Jenkins left the shop rapidly nonetheless sporting the garments and set off the theft alarm on the retailer’s entrance. Jenkins was discovered and arrested by police close to Charlottetown Rural Excessive Faculty. The garments, valued at $295, had been recovered and in a position to be re-sold, mentioned MacDonald.
Jenkins prior felony document features a 38-month federal jail sentence in 2018 for breaking into two houses and different offences.
MacDonald and legal-aid lawyer Justin Milne collectively really useful a sentence of 30 days in jail for the offence. Milne requested an intermittent, or weekend sentence since his shopper attends addictions counselling throughout the week. Jenkins declined to deal with the court docket.
Chief Choose Jeff Lantz accepted the joint advice and sentenced Jenkins to 30 days in jail intermittently together with 12 months of probation. A situation of his probation is that he keep away from the Boathouse clothes retailer.
