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Tammy Scott-Wallace
Telegraph-Journal

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SUSSEX - Jason Thomas McPhee received 60 more days in jail - 20 days for each of three common assaults - in addition to the time he has already served since being locked up Sept. 20.

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Tammy Scott-Wallace/Telegraph-Journal

Jason McPhee of Sussex will spend another 60 days in jail after pleading guilty to three common assaults that occurred in Sussex.

McPhee, 30, pleaded guilty to all the charges recently in Sussex provincial court.

Crown prosecutor Kelly Winchester said on July 10, McPhee went to see his girlfriend Lisa Marie Tataquason at Dooly's in Sussex. Outside the pool hall, with McPhee behind the wheel of a car, he ordered her in the vehicle. When she refused, he grabbed her by the hair and drove away, pulling her alongside the car.

Then on Sept. 4, McPhee paid a visit at Tataquason's home on Nelson Street. When she asked him to leave out of fear, he entered anyway and a vicious fight broke out. She started swinging a knife and stabbed McPhee in the lower back, and he retaliated by punching and kicking her.

In the process, McPhee's arm was broken. Tataquason is now serving a two-year federal prison term, in part, for the assault causing bodily harm.

Then on Sept. 20, Winchester explained, McPhee was in downtown Sussex when his uncle drove by. The uncle heard someone yell, "Get out of town, you're a dead man," Winchester described, which caused the driver to turn around and confront McPhee. As a result, an argument ensued and McPhee threw rocks at his uncle.

Winchester said McPhee was picked up by police on Sept. 24 and, with the two-for-one remand time taken into consideration, has already served the equivalent of two months in jail.

Winchester and duty lawyer John King jointly submitted to Judge Henrik Tonning an additional two months in jail for the three assaults.

"He's getting good treatment in jail," King said of McPhee, who has undergone surgery for his arm and looks healthier than he did a month ago.

Tonning told McPhee, who has a lengthy criminal record, that it's time to smarten up.

"You'll be dead if you don't get a grip on it soon," Tonning said. "You've been around the block Mr. McPhee."

Along with the 60-day jail sentence, McPhee was also placed on probation for 12 months under the order to have no contact with Tataquason or his uncle.