Selling crystal meth, brandishing knife outside Charlottetown Outreach Centre leads to jail time for P.E.I. man
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Promoting crystal methamphetamine outdoors and close to the Charlottetown Group Outreach Centre and brandishing a knife at one other man have led to jail time for a P.E.I. man.
The accused – Daniel James Acorn, 38 – pleaded responsible and was sentenced on Aug. 24 in provincial court docket in Charlottetown for drug possession for trafficking functions and possession of a weapon for a harmful objective. Acorn appeared by video from the Provincial Correctional Centre for the Aug. 24 court docket look.
The info
On June 5, a Charlottetown police officer reviewing E-Watch video footage outdoors the Group Outreach Centre on Euston Road noticed Acorn promoting medicine to a different particular person. Police had been beforehand instructed by a supply that Acorn was promoting medicine at that location, stated federal Crown legal professional Jacob Zelman at sentencing. Then on June 14, police conducting surveillance noticed Acorn promote crystal meth to a different man close by at Ole King Sq.. After the transaction, the client put the crystal meth in a pipe and smoked it.
Police arrested Acorn and seized 4.84 grams of crystal meth, 4 pace capsules, a digital scale, $145, two cell telephones and drug paraphernalia.
Zelman stated an aggravating issue was that Acorn was promoting medicine outdoors the outreach centre.
“Because the court docket effectively is aware of, a few of Charlottetown’s most susceptible residents frequent the outreach centre,” Zelman defined. “This offence shouldn’t be a part of the answer for these susceptible people.”
The weapon offence occurred on June 9 at 2:30 p.m. outdoors the outreach centre when Acorn was seen going through one other man and brandishing a knife. The 2 males separated and nothing additional occurred, stated Crown legal professional Emily Campbell.
Prior offences
Acorn’s legal file didn’t embrace a previous conviction for drug trafficking. Acorn did have a previous weapons offence conviction.
Authorized assist lawyer Justin Milne famous that Acorn wasn’t making a considerable revenue promoting medicine. Quite, Acorn was promoting medicine to assist his personal drug habit, he stated.
The sentencing
Chief Decide Jeff Lantz accepted joint suggestions from Zelman, Campbell and Milne and sentenced Acorn to 10 months (300 days) in jail for the drug offence and 20 days consecutive for possessing a knife for a harmful objective.
Acorn was given 87 days credit score for time already served in custody.
Lantz additionally sentenced Acorn to a 10-year weapons prohibition.
Terrence McEachern is a justice reporter with SaltWire in Prince Edward Island. He will be reached by e-mail at [email protected] and will be adopted on X @terry_mcn.
