Throwing unopened pop cans at vehicles leads to jail time for two P.E.I. men

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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Driving round and throwing unopened pop cans at 11 different automobiles and inflicting hundreds of {dollars} in damages has led to jail time for 2 P.E.I. males.

Caleb Bevan, 19, and Dakota James Ellis, 18, beforehand appeared in provincial court docket in Charlottetown and pleaded responsible to a few counts every of mischief for damaging the 11 automobiles in February and March. Sentencing was adjourned to July 5 so a pre-sentence report discussing their backgrounds and private circumstances could possibly be ready to help the court docket.

The information

The primary set of offences started on the night of Saturday, Feb. 11 in Stratford, in line with the information beforehand learn in court docket. That night, Bevan and Ellis drove round Stratford in a 2003 burgundy Toyota Camry (belonging to Ellis) and threw pop cans at eight different automobiles on the Bunbury, Kinlock and Keppoch roads. The injury to the automobiles included to the hood, entrance bumper, windshield and facet mirrors. Motorists additionally reported chipped paint and pop on their automobiles. Pop cans had been additionally discovered close to the automobile strikes. One motorist reported the next morning {that a} pop can was embedded in his automobile’s entrance grill.

A couple of days afterward Wednesday, Feb. 15, Bevan and Ellis drove round once more within the Toyota Camry and threw pop cans at two extra automobiles. One of many automobiles that was struck by a pop can was pushed by a lady along with her daughter and one other passenger on Route 1 close to Homosexual Street at 7:15 p.m. That automobile had injury to the driving force’s facet back and front doorways.

An RCMP officer investigated a tip on Feb. 16 that the Toyota Camry could have been on the Stratford Petro-Canada on the night of the primary set of incidents. Video surveillance footage at 9:36 p.m. on Feb. 11 confirmed Bevan and Ellis on the retailer and entering into the Toyota Camry. The shop clerk additionally confirmed that the 2 males had been inside and purchased sweet. The officer later noticed the Toyota Camry leaving No Frills and pulled it over.

At first, Ellis denied the allegations, then stated he was simply the driving force. Ellis was arrested and informed police that he and Bevan had been bored, so that they purchased three packages of Pepsi (24 cans per bundle) on Feb. 11 and threw the pop cans at different automobiles.

When contacted by police, Bevan declined to provide a press release.

Then on March 5 at 11:30 p.m., Bevan and Ellis had been driving on Route 1 in Stratford and threw a pop can at one other automobile. The pop can strike broken the opposite automobile’s facet mirror and chipped paint on the door. The driving force circled and adopted the Toyota Camry and reported the incident and the automobile’s licence plate quantity to police. Ellis and Bevan drove by means of a collision scene and had been pulled over by RCMP officers on website.

The sentence

On July 5, Choose Nancy Orr sentenced Bevan and Ellis to 35 days in jail every to be served on weekends and two years of probation.

The pair was additionally ordered to every pay roughly $8,400 in restitution for the injury to the automobiles. At sentencing, Bevan and Ellis every introduced $1,000 to be paid on the restitution quantity owing.

Bevan and Ellis did not have prior legal information.

Terrence McEachern is a justice reporter with SaltWire in Prince Edward Island. He may be reached by electronic mail at [email protected] and may be adopted on Twitter @terry_mcn.