Prelim. dates set in accessory to murder case, jail time given in two other cases
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New preliminary inquiry dates have been set for a Grande Prairie woman facing an accessory to murder charge.
Courtney McQuinn’s hearing will be held August 14 to 16, 2018.
She was charged after the 2015 murder of Adrian Snider.
McQuinn had been scheduled to have a preliminary inquiry earlier this year, but it was put off.
She failed to show up for a subsequent court appearance and is now also facing charges of failure to appear and breach of conditions.
McQuinn is being held at the Edmonton Remand Centre.
Two men facing murder charges in the case, Tommy Paul and Dominic Decque, are due to stand trial next year. So is a third man, Patrick Decque, who has been charged with manslaughter and accessory to murder.
Guilty plea in bear spray attack
A man has pleaded guilty after another person was bear sprayed in a downtown Grande Prairie parking lot over a $40 debt.
Patrick Cote admitted to one count of assault with a weapon in the May 2016 incident. Another charge was withdrawn.
Cote also admitted to three charges in a separate drug case, and counts of breach of conditions and failure to appear in court.
Eight others counts in the drug case were also withdrawn.
He has been given 150 days in jail to cover everything.
With credit for time already spent in custody, Cote has nine days left to serve in his sentence.
Ten-month jail sentence in stolen property case
A man has been given a 300-day jail sentence after a police found a weapon and stolen property inside a stolen vehicle.
Cody Lee Brown pleaded guilty to two counts of possession of stolen property, and single counts of possession of a prohibited firearm and another of having a prohibited firearm in a vehicle.
Ten other charges were withdrawn
Brown has been given 107 days credit for time already spent in custody.
On October 2 at around 2 p.m., Grande Prairie RCMP pulled over what they thought was a stolen vehicle they spotted downtown. A man was arrested. A search of that vehicle turned up a weapon, ammunition and stolen property related to theft cases from around the city.
