B and E Suspect Arrested, Stolen Firearms Recovered
Tuesday, January 24, 2012 @ 1:24 PM
Prince George, B.C. – A 26 year old Prince George man is in custody after being arrested on suspicion of break and enter and theft.
On Saturday, (Jan. 21st) Prince George RCMP received a report of a man, carrying a number of firearms, walking in the area of 17th Avenue and Juniper Street.
Several police officers attended the area where they located a man matching the description given by witnesses.
Police then went to a shed on Juniper Street where a shed had been broken into and a gun safe containing several long guns had been stolen. Officers located and seized all the stolen firearms from a residence on the 1600 block of Queensway.
Further investigation found that two more sheds at a residence on the 1800 block of Kenwood Street had also bee broken into.
26 year old Jonathan Kyle Hansen of Prince George is now facing several charges, including:
- Break and Enter to Steal a Firearm
- Break & Enter (2 counts)
- Possession of Property Obtained by Crime (2 counts)
- Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm
- Knowingly Possess a Firearm Without a License
- Possess a Prohibited or Restricted Firearm with Ammunition
- Possessing a Weapon Obtained Through Offence
Hansen has been remained in custody until his next Court appearance scheduled for February 6th, 2012 in Prince George.
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“A growing number of criminal cases are at risk of being thrown out due to unreasonable delays despite the provincial government’s efforts to reduce backlogs.
Over the past two years, the province has hired 14 judges and more sheriffs to try to arrest the trend.
But the number of criminal cases taking longer than 18 months to get to trial, the point at which charges could be stayed, continues to grow. The number reached 2,522 as of Sept. 30, 2011, up from 2,038 when a report titled Justice Delayed was first issued in September 2010.
Judges have not hesitated to jettison cases subject to unreasonable delays.
The number of youth and adult criminal cases stayed in 2011 almost doubled from the year before. (There were 109 such cases as of Dec. 24, 2011 compared to 56 in 2010 and 44 in 2009.) Last November, a judge dismissed an impaired driving case against Lief Milton Pridy after finding his Charter rights had been breached because he had waited 18 months for trial.
Other judges have also thrown out drug cases because of excessive trial delays.
“I’ve never seen this constellation of events,” senior Vancouver criminal defence lawyer Richard Peck said Thursday He blamed the problem on a shortage of government funding for judges, prosecutors, court staff and legal aid.
“For the first time in my career, we’re seeing a situation that seems to be reaching a cri-sis level,” said the lawyer, who has been practising 37 years.
If the system doesn’t operate properly, it undermines public confidence not only in the justice system, but the proper functioning of society, he said.”
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