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SAINT JOHN - Fails to show, jail time grows

An Upper Gagetown, Queens County man who failed to report to the Saint John Regional Correctional Centre on Dec. 20 to start serving a weekend sentence of 14 days will have plenty of jail time to consider his actions. Provincial court Judge Anne Jeffries sentenced Donald McNutt, 45, to 30 days in jail on Monday, in addition to any time left to be served, after he entered a guilty plea to being unlawfully at large. McNutt, who had advised both the RCMP and the jail that he wouldn't be reporting on Dec. 20, offered a rather lame excuse - "I didn't know I could" - when Jeffries asked why he hadn't put in an appearance on subsequent weekends. The court was told he was arrested on an outstanding warrant by the Oromocto RCMP during its investigation of an unrelated matter on Sunday.

Judge shows who's boss

SAINT JOHN - As 23-year-old Misty Marie Millership learned Tuesday, provincial court Judge Anne Jeffries has no time for those who try to mislead the court. Millership, who pleaded guilty to violating a probation order by being in a prostitution-prone area of city's uptown, tried to convince the court she had arranged a time to enter substance abuse treatment at Ridgewood Addiction Services on Monday. She said her boyfriend had driven her there even though her probation officer called her earlier Monday saying she was not on the list. "I have to do whatever my boyfriend tells me," she told the judge. "Right now, you're going by my rules," Jeffries corrected her, in imposing a 30-day jail sentence on the woman. The court was told Miller and another woman were spotted standing on the corner of Cliff and Coburg streets by a police officer around 9 p.m. on March 15. While admitting she had breached her probation by being there, Millership said she was there to see her child.

Trial dates set in child porn case

SAINT JOHN - Three days have been set aside in August for the trial of Milford Albert McBrien, 57, of Loch Lomond Road, who faces a summary charge of accessing child pornography. Judge Anne Jeffries set the trial for Aug. 18-20 on Tuesday after chief Crown prosecutor James McAvity informed the court that the Crown had intended to proceed in a summary fashion all along. A date for a preliminary hearing was to have been set Tuesday after the Crown indicated earlier it was going to proceed as if the offence was indictable, a more serious charge.

Avoids extrab time in jail

SAINT JOHN - Kevin Robert Floyd, 45, of King Street West received a one-month jail term, to be served concurrent to any time he is now serving, after pleading guilty Monday to a Feb. 27 mischief charge of damaging a silent patrolman inside a police vehicle. The silent patrolman is the Plexiglas barrier that separates the front and back seats in a police vehicle. Noting the man had already been sentenced to 13 months in jail on related matters recently, the Crown said it wasn't asking for more time.