Sentence given in manslaughter case
Alberta Justice says a sentence of a little under six years has been handed down in a manslaughter case.
Carmon Ferguson was given a 2,160 day jail sentence April 8 in Grande Prairie court.
Ferguson was given 817 days credit for time already spent in custody, leaving 1,343 days to serve.
Ferguson had originally been charged with murder after the 2023 death of a 47 year old resident of Horse Lake First Nation.
Beaverlodge RCMP said at the time on October 8, 2023, they got a report from EMS that paramedics were taking a man injured under what were described as “suspicious circumstances” to the hospital. The man later died of his injuries.
Charges against one accused in murder investigation withdrawn
Alberta Justice says charges against one of the four people charged after a body was found in a rural area near Fairview have been withdrawn.
Glen Whitney of Fairview had been facing charges of accessory after the fact to murder and indignity to a body.
Three others charged; Christopher Valin, Guy Valin, and Brooke Burton are all due in Peace River court at a future date. Christopher Valin is the only one facing a murder charge in this matter.
The foursome were arrested after the body of 54-year-old Wilfred Rever of Manning was found by four bear hunters on May 25, 2024. An autopsy later determined his death was a homicide.
October trial to be held in attempted murder, kidnapping, assault case
Alberta Justice says a trial will take place October 27 to 31 after an incident in late December of 2023 where someone was held inside a home at gunpoint, a home inside which shots had been fired.
The accused had been shot and wounded by police. Both the accused and victim were taken to hospital.
The charges against the accused include two counts of attempted murder, arson, unlawful confinement, and assault with a weapon.
A court ordered publication ban prohibits the release of any information that could identify the victim or witnesses.
One year jail sentence for one accused in identity theft case
Alberta Justice says one of two people charged in an identity theft investigation has been given a 12-month jail sentence.
Trent Derek Thompson pleaded guilty to charges of possession of stolen property under $5,000, possession of a forged document, and unauthorized possession of credit card data on April 7 in Grande Prairie court. Nine other charges were withdrawn.
Thompson was given 41-days credit for time already spent in custody.
He was one of two people charged on December 1, 2022, after Grande Prairie RCMP got a report from a local hotel that someone had fraudulently used a credit card to pay for a room.
This led to a search of an apartment where police found forged and stolen ID, forged and stolen credit cards, stolen property, and computers and other equipment used to make fake IDs and cards.
Charges against the other man charged were withdrawn in May of last year.
Accused in child pornography investigation serving jail time
The accused in a 2024 child pornography investigation is serving jail time.
The Alberta Crown Prosecution Service says Ronald Duinvenvoorde was given a 36-month sentence after pleading guilty to a charge of accessing child pornography and another of breaching an order under the Sex Offender Information Registration Act. He was already required to be in the sex offender registry for life and under an order to not have contact with anyone under 16.
Duinvenvoorde was under a Canada-wide warrant for child pornography offences out of Grande Prairie when he was arrested in Chilliwack, B.C., in May of 2024.
Law enforcement officials believed he was trying to leave the country.
Stay of proceedings, charges withdrawn in Fairview drug case
Alberta Justice says a stay of proceedings is now in place against one accused in a Fairview drug trafficking arrest.
The stay in the possession for the purpose of trafficking case against Brittany Salmond has been in place since February 20.
Similar charges against co-accused Robert Allen were withdrawn last November.
Both were arrested in October of 2023 after an investigation that started in September of that year.
A search of a Fairview home on October 6, 2023, turned up cocaine, fentanyl, and methamphetamine.