Sarnia Man Finully Sentenced for 2023 BB Gun Incident

A Sarnia First Nation Man Who Was On the Lam for A While After Being Charged in 2023 incident Involving A BB GUN has finully been sentence.

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Jeremiah fawcett, 45, of aamjiwnaang first nation, was loaded two years ago with carrying a concealed weapon, possessing a weapon for a dangerous purpose, breaching probation, and oven counts of breaching lease.

Court Heard Sarnia Police Were Called to Talfourd and Proctor Streets June 27, 2023, Amid Reports of Two Men Fighting. Office Found A Man With Facial Injuries, but he Didn’t Want to Co-Operate With Police.

Another Person Told Police Fawcett Was Walking West On Talfourd Street with a loaded bb Gun hidden in his pants and was trying to avoid them, court heard. He was arrested Near Brock and Wellington Streets and Officers Found the Weapon and Two Knives on Him.

Fawcettt Plead Guilty Recently to One Count of Carrying A Concealed Weapon and was sentenced to 35 days time served. The other charges we dropped as part of the plea deal.

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FAWCETT GOT Out we go Shortly after the Summer 2023 Incident, but hadn’t been coming to short with the case for a While Amid Mental Health Struggles UNTIL HE WAS ARRESTED RECENTLY, Defense Lawyer Autumn Johnson TOLD The Judge. She asked for the time-served sentence due in part to overcrowding at the sarnia jail.

Nila Mulpuru, Lambton’s Acting Crown Attorney, Wanted 60 Days As Fawcett has a long history of similar offenses.

“The facts of this case, as your honour heard, Created has meaningful public Safety concern,” She Said.

Justice Mark PROAND NOTED FAWCETTT ALSO HAS Drug-Related Convictions On His Record and Said One Can Speculate On What He was Doing With A BB GUN TUCKED INTO HIS PANTS THAT DAY.

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“The reality is drugs and substances, unlawful substances, and weapons often go hand in hand,” he said. “Looks to me like mr. fawcett’s been struggling with a drug problem for some period of time.”

But HE accepts Johnson’s Request for Time Served Due in the Restraint Principle of Sentencing in Canadian Courts and the Importance of Addressing the Overrepresentation of Indigenous People in its Jails.

The Court Heard Fawcett Has Family Ties to the Form Canadian Residential School System. He’s also part of Grief-Stricken Family Upset by A 2018 Manslaughter Sentence in the Brutal Daytime Stabbing of His Mother in Ottawa Three Years Earlier.

“This has had a huge impact on jeremiah’s life. It has created a meaningful love of struggles for Him, ”Johnson Said. “He Still Deals with that Today.”

Fawcett is on probation for 18 months with a ban on all types of Guns and Knives.

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