By EverythingGP staff

Court

Court update: Sentencing after shots fired incident, stay in stolen property case

May 6, 2020 | 5:30 AM

Both the people charged after a 2018 incident where a confrontation led to shots being fired between suspects and Grande Prairie RCMP have now been sentenced.

Alberta Justice says Raymond Andrew Rodtka was given a total of five years in jail on April 20 in Grande Prairie court, four years after pleading guilty to discharging a firearm with intent, another nine-month consecutive sentence of failing to stop a vehicle and evading a police officer and another three months consecutive for pleading guilty to a count of possession of stolen property under $5000. He was also handed a 10-year firearm prohibition.

Last July, Kevin Daniel Turner was given 30-days time served and a two-year firearm prohibition after pleading guilty to a charge of unauthorized possession of a firearm.

RCMP said at the time that on December 4, 2018, at around 4 a.m., police tried to stop a stolen vehicle. A confrontation then started that led to shots being fired and one of the suspects being injured. No Mounties were hurt.

Rodtka and Tuner were also charged after an armed robbery at a gas station in Sangudo that happened on November 30, 2018. The sentences cover both cases.

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Stay in stolen property case

A stay of proceedings is now in place in the case against two people charged after some stolen property was recovered near Baytree in May of last year.

A trial for Jered Panich and Darlene Krause was set to take place Wednesday in Grande Prairie court.

They were each charged with one count of possession of property over $5000 and another of possession of property under $5000 after a speed boat and batteries police believed were stolen from oilfield sites were recovered during a search of a rural property on May 26, 2019.

A stay of proceedings is put in place when the Crown, after reviewing the evidence, decides there is not a reasonable likelihood of a conviction or that prosecution is no longer in the public interest.

If no new evidence is found within a year of the stay being put in place, charges are dropped.