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Court

Court update: Jail time in drug case, murder trial delayed, trial set in Whitecourt armed robbery

May 7, 2021 | 5:30 AM

Alberta Justice says one of the two people charge in a drug bust connected to High Level and Grande Prairie has pleaded guilty to a charge of possession for the purpose of trafficking.

Jersey Rennie was given a 34-month jail sentence April 28 in High Level court, with 10 months credit for time already spent in custody. Rennie, who is from Paddle Prairie, had been facing 11 charges.

RCMP said the charges came after an investigation into what police called street-level trafficking in High Level and Grande Prairie.

Mounties seized cocaine, cannabis and cash during an October 1, 2020 search of a High Level home.

One of the other people charged, Douglas Copeland of High Level, has a preliminary hearing set for August 25.

Murder trial delayed a second time

Alberta Justice says a murder trial for a Manitoba man charged after the death of a woman from northern Alberta has been delayed a second time.

The trial for Grant Arthur Sneesby is now set for May 16 to June 23, 2022. It had been scheduled to start May 3 and run through May 21.

It had originally been set for March 23 to April 10, 2020. Pandemic restrictions last spring meant all in-person trials were delayed.

Sneesby was charged after the body of 44-year-old Gloria Gladue was found in Manitoba in 2018. She was last seen in Wabasca in October of 2015 and reported missing by her family a month later.

Trial dates set in Whitecourt armed robbery

Alberta Justice says trial dates have been set for a man charged after an armed robbery in Whitecourt.

Matthew James McDavid will stand trial August 30 and 31 in Whitecourt.

RCMP said at the time of his arrest in June of 2020 that McDavid was charged after a hold-up at the Bank of Nova Scotia branch in Whitecourt in June of 2017.

A man had gone into the bank and pointed a firearm at the bank’s employees before running off with what police describe as a large amount of cash.

Stolen mail, personal information case wraps up in Grande Prairie court.

Alberta Justice says a Grande Prairie court case involving two people charged after Mounties recovered stolen mail and personal documents during a traffic stop has wrapped up with one person going to jail and all charges against another being withdrawn.

All 61 charges against Daniel Campbell of Grande Prairie were withdrawn April 26. The counts had included unauthorized possession of identity information and possession of property obtained by crime.

On January 25, Vanessa Jordan had been given a 195-day jail term, minus 78 days credit for time already spent in custody, after pleading guilty to one charge of possession of stolen property under $5000 and another of obtaining/possessing identity information. She was also given 12-months probation.

RCMP said on December 1, 2020, members were on patrol in Clairmont when they found a vehicle parked at a gas station that had a license plate that did not match and that the passenger had outstanding warrants.

A search of that vehicle turned up the stolen mail and documents.