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COP’S KID KICKED A COP BY M. BARASSING THE 21-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER OF COLCHES- TER DISTRICT RCMP SERGEANT AL AFFLECK HAS BEEN FOUND GUILTY OF AS- SAULTING A NEW GLASGOW COP AND RESIST- ING ARREST IN CONNECTION WITH AN INCIDENT AT LAST YEAR’S RIVERFRONT JUBILEE, AN IN- CIDENT APPARENTLY FUELLED BY HER CON- TEMPT FOR LOCAL TOWN POLICE. According to a court decision released last month, Amy Affleck, a licensed practical nurse at the Aberdeen Hospital, was hanging around outside Acropole Pizza in the early morning hours of August 2, 2009 when officers from the N.G. Police Department arrived on the scene to investigate a broken railing outside Cafe Italia next door. When the officers told her to move along, she refused. As dozens of drunken revellers gathered on Provost Street, the incident escalated into a shouting match culminating in her arrest. The reason why she ignored the officer’s demands? “In court, she said she refused to move because she has no respect for the N.G. Police Department and that the officers were abusing their authority,” reads a line from the 22-page decision, penned by Judge Theodore Tax. As she struggled with the officers, Amy, who testified to drinking about seven and a half bottles of beer that night, unleashed a few errant “mule kicks,” one of which connected with Const. Jay Keating. Incidentally, her 18-year-old brother Matthew took the stand for the defence during the twoday trial in N.G. Provincial Court last spring, testifying that he had quaffed six beers, three shots of rum and smoked pot on the night in question. Dear old dad ended up coming to her rescue, calling N.G. Police HQ soon after the incident, advising that one of his constables would be along to retrieve her. RCMP Const. Adlam turned up at 4 a.m. to chauffeur the tearful girl home. She’ll be sentenced at a later date. 20 ATLANTIC CANADA FRANK SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 THE SHOOTER WHO THINKS HE’S A ‘GENTLEMAN’ BY HUGH BRISS IN SENTENCING MYKEL SMITH TO 14 YEARS FOR THE ATTEMPTED MURDER OF MIKE PATRIQUEN JR., PROVINCIAL COURT JUDGE JAMIE CAMPBELL DREW ON PSYCHIATRIC RE- PORTS FROM EXPERTS WHO PAINT A TROUBLING PORTRAIT OF THE 19-YEAR-OLD SHOOTER. North Preston native Smith was 17.5 years old — six months from being treated as an adult in the eyes of the law — when he shot Patriquen in the chest at close range on Remembrance Day 2008, after a mutual acquaintance, Sergio Bowers, asked Smith to visit Patriquen “and bring a gun.” Separate assessments were prepared by psychologists Dr. Debra Jellicoe and Dr. Peyton Harris, clinical social worker Jodi Butler, who deemed Smith “criminally sophisticated,” and psychiatrist Dr. Aileen Brunet, who described the trigger-happy hooligan as showing “a grandiose sense of self-importance, (he) believes he is special and lacks empathy.” While Brunet alarmingly noted that his “personality make-up was such that it makes for good mercenaries,” Campbell described the vicious thug as “a young man who is totally selfabsorbed and however generously wisdom is defined, he has very little of it.” “His career aspirations include being a rapper or a model,” the judge elaborated. “At 19, he has not focused seriously on any more mundane undertakings in the event that the fame and riches that so justly flow from talent and good looks, do not come his way.” Campbell continued: “Mykel Smith sees himself, to use his word, as a ‘gentleman.’ He isn’t capable of getting the disconnect. He doesn’t see the irony. He believes his own spin. He seems to believe that according to the anti-social code that he has adopted, that he is indeed ‘a gentleman’.” Campbell concluded, “He can commit serious offences without needing to be emotionally aroused. Once the offences are committed he can pretty much put them out of mind and not be troubled by them.” In his August 24 sentencing decision, Campbell related that Smith had 14 previous convictions that “have not been minor run-ins with the law.” Does Frank Know? 420-1668; 423-0281 (fax) atlanticfrank@eastlink.ca CRIME & PUNISHMENT Judge Campbell remarked that Smith, who is the father of an 18-month-old son with a 17year-old, is considered a “model prisoner” at Waterville, and got positive marks from a facilitator for participating in voluntary programs, which include “making efforts to study Islam.” On April 30, Sergio Bowers was sentenced to eight years for aggravated assault, misleading police, and for trafficking in ecstasy and cocaine, all charges which arose from his role in the Patriquen shooting. At his sentencing, Chief Justice Joe Kennedy — he called Bowers “the author of this tragedy” — delivered a stern lecture to the 21-year old: “You decide whether your life is worth more than this because so far you’ve been a disgrace. You’re a disgrace. You’re an embarrassment. Get a grip, young man.” According to court records, Bowers grew pissed off after his then-buddy, Patriquen, accidently damaged his new Blackberry. It was shortly afterwards, Bowers suggested Smith arrive with his gun. Join our Facebook Group www.facebook.com keywords: Atlantic Canada Frank
Michael Patriquen BY MARY JAYNE WHILE THE FATE OF THEIR SON’S SHOOTER HAS EFFECTIVELY BEEN SEALED, THE FINAL CHAPTER OF FORMER WEED ACTIVISTS MIKE PATRIQUEN SR. AND MELANIE STEPHEN’S DIVORCE SAGA HAS YET TO BE WRITTEN. Divorce proceedings between Michael and Melanie, former (Bad pun alert! — ed.) high profile activists for the Cheech & Chong set, are now entering Year Five, meaning their acrimonious divorce has outlasted most modern marriages. (See Frank 494 for the initial report on their martial meltdown.) Their latest legal spliff, I mean rift, centres on the court-ordered sale of their former matrimonial abode in Sackville, a ruling opposed by one-time N.S. Marijuana Party leader Michael.* In July, Supreme Court Family Division Judge James Williams ordered the Orchard Drive property, where Michael lives with his wheelchair-bound son Mike Jr. and runs a 25 plant grow op for medical marijuana, listed for sale at $257,200. Michael is dead-set against the sale, arguing that it would leave him and his children — the divorced pair also have a 17-year daughter, who the court has ruled is no longer a dependent of her parents — “out on the street, destitute.” Needless to say, Melanie, married to Michael for 23 years, isn’t buying the argument. Michael is “playing the system and is simply attempting to throw yet another wrench into what has been an exhaustive (legal) process,” court papers say. Melanie, who deems his latest legal manoeuvres “frivolous” believes that Michael opposes the sale because “he fears his portion of the proceeds will be forfeited to pay his fines.” Besides an outstanding Revenue Canada debt under $175,000, Michael currently owes $250,000 in fines from past convictions under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. The one-time celebrity cannabis couple also appear to be swimming in smaller pools of credit card debt, mortgage debt and property tax debt, making the house sale a matter of no small importance to Melanie. On July 29, Appeals Court Chief Justice Michael MacDonald dismissed Michael’s at- Melanie Stephen POT PAIR’S MELTDOWN GETS UGLIER tempt to postpone the listing until November 16, when the court was scheduled to hear his formal appeal. But it appears the Patriquens have finally tried the court’s patience. On August 3, Judge Williams reviewed his and Judge MacDonald’s earlier decisions, and concluded “neither party was in a finanical position to buy out the other party.” Declaring that the “matrimonial property issue ... has a tortuous background,” Judge Williams ordered the house be sold, acknowledging that to maintain status quo was a “scenario (that) is in a word intolerable for everybody.” He ordered Michael list the house at $257,200 with a realtor of his choice, and in an unusual but not unprecedented move, added a clause stating that the property can be sold at public auction, at a date to be determined by the Sheriff after October 1. * Under Michael’s leadership (though incarcerated at the time, Michael nonetheless ran in both Halifax Citadel and Sackville Cobequid), the Marijuana Party won 1,608 votes in the 2003 provincial election. Does Frank Know? atlanticfrank@eastlink.ca SEPTEMBER 28, 2010 ATLANTIC CANADA FRANK 21
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