This is the latest court report for Kings and West Hants counties.
Conditional sentence with house arrest
Anthony Scott Carpenter, 55, of Kentville, has been handed a conditional sentence order with house arrest for uttering a threat via text message to damage an individual’s property; assault and failing to comply with his recognizance.
Carpenter pleaded guilty to the recognizance charge in January, changed his plea to guilty to the charge of uttering a threat in April and changed his plea to guilty to the assault charge in May. The matters were adjourned to allow time for a pre-sentence report to be updated and for sentencing.
On July 17, Judge Christopher Manning handed Carpenter a four-month conditional sentence order for committing an assault, a two-month conditional sentence order – to be served consecutively – for uttering a threat and a one-month conditional sentence order – to be served concurrently – for the recognizance offence.
Carpenter will serve house arrest for the first four months, to be followed by daily curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. for the remaining two months. This will be followed by 12 months of probation. The court imposed a five-year firearm prohibition against Carpenter and granted a secondary DNA order in relation to the assault charge.
Carpenter committed the offences in Kentville on July 27 and between Dec. 24 and 26, 2018. Charges of uttering a threat via text message to cause harm and criminal harassment were dismissed on July 17 with the Crown offering no evidence.
Conditional sentence for drug offence
Mackenzie Allen Moore, 20, of Middleton, has been handed a conditional sentence order with house arrest for unlawfully possessing cannabis marijuana for the purpose of trafficking.
Moore changed his plea to guilty on May 23 and the matter was adjourned to July 17 to allow time for a pre-sentence report to be prepared and for sentencing.
Judge Christopher Manning handed Moore a six-month conditional sentence order with house arrest for the first three months, to be followed by daily curfew from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. for the remaining time. The court imposed a 10-year, six-month firearm prohibition against Moore and granted a forfeiture order for offence-related property.
Moore committed the offence in Kingston on June 3, 2018.
Assault, recognizance offence
Kindera Shyann States, 20, of Kentville, has been handed a conditional discharge with probation for committing an assault and failing to comply with her recognizance.
States changed her pleas to guilty on Jan. 9 and the matters were adjourned to allow time for a pre-sentence report to be prepared and for sentencing. On July 17, Judge Christopher Manning handed States a conditional discharge with nine months of reporting probation on the two charges.
States committed the offence of assault on July 15, 2018. The location of the offence was not specified in court documents. States committed the offence of failing to comply with her recognizance by attending an individual’s place of employment in Coldbrook on Sept. 21, 2018.
Two counts of uttering a threat to cause bodily harm or death, another count of failing to comply with her recognizance and a charge of failing to comply with her undertaking were dismissed on July 17 with the Crown offering no evidence.
Probation offence, failed to attend court
Jennifer Lyn Hart, 40, of Avonport, has been handed a suspended sentence with probation for failing to comply with probation with regard to reporting as directed and for failing to attend court in accordance with a summons.
Hart pleaded guilty to the charges on July 16. Judge Christopher Manning handed Hart a suspended sentence with six months of reporting probation, including five hours of community service work, on the two charges.
Hart committed the offences in Kentville between June 22 and Sept. 13 and on Nov. 21, 2018.
