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DEAD MEN CAN BE SUED
I SEE WHERE A NEARLY $50,000 CLAIM HAS
BEEN FILED AGAINST THE ESTATE OF GLENN
ALAN MACARTHUR.
On September 2, Tracy Sherren filed her
notice of claim, for an outstanding debt worth
$48,470.54 against MacArthur, the commercial
leasing agent who masterminded a multi-million
dollar ponzi scheme before his mysterious death
on May 18 at the Quality Inn Airport Hotel in
Halifax (see Franks 588-591).
As previously reported, exactly one month
before MacArthur was found dead, Tracey
sued him in Supreme Court for nearly $87,000
over an unpaid loan she made to MacArthur in
January 2009.
Tracy dropped her lawsuit four days later,
and probate records indicate that on April 30
MacArthur paid her $45,000 towards the balance.
In documents penned by her Stewart
McKelvey lawyer, Chris Madill, Tracy is claiming
the remaining amount of the earlier loan.
Weldon McInnes solicitor Jean Beeler, a
former chair of the N.S. Police Commission,
is the solicitor for the Glenn MacArthur estate.
Pending final inventory, the estate is worth
$5,000.
Stay tuned.
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Drunk driver back
on probation — job
NINE MONTHS AFTER PICTOU COUNTY YOUTH
PROBATION OFFICER FRANCIS HUGH
MACARTHUR, 50, WAS FIRED FROM HIS
$62,000 PER YEAR POST AFTER RUNNING
AFOUL OF DRINKING AND DRIVING LAWS FOR
THE FOURTH TIME IN 21 YEARS (FRANK 575),
FRANK (NO RELATION) IS BACK ON THE JOB.
Late last year, Frank blamed my coverage of
his most recent brush with the law, a
breathalyser charge which resulted in a curative
discharge, for his ouster. But, likely with
the help of the Nova Scotia Government
Employees Union, Frankie isn’t down for the
count. He’s just gone to the Dark Side.
A phone call to the Dartmouth Probation
Office confirms that Frank is once again serving
the public, this time as an adult probation
officer. I left a message for him, but he didn’t
call me back.
Incidentally, Frank’s $108,200-assessed Nelson
Street, New Glasgow abode is being
flogged by Coldwell Banker M.B. Green
Realty for the bargain price of $119,000. I guess
he plans to stay in Dartmouth for awhile.
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22 ATLANTIC CANADA FRANK SEPTEMBER 28, 2010
No break for
Ex-Mountie Brad
RETIRED PORT HAWKESBURY RCMP
MOUTHPIECE BRAD PARKS WILL HAVE TO DEAL
WITH HIS CHARGE OF THEFT UNDER $5,000
IN OPEN COURT, AS PUBLIC PROSECUTIONS
SPOKESTHINGY CHRIS HANSEN SAYS A PREVI-
OUS CONVICTION MAKES HIM INELIGIBLE FOR
ADULT DIVERSION.
Brad, who was charged after an alleged shoplifting
incident last spring at the Port
Hawkesbury Superstore, just down the
street from his Tamarac Drive abode, was convicted
on a breathalyser charge in January of
2009 (Frank 587, 588).
Directing me toward the N.S. Crown Attorney
Policy Manual online, Chris points out that
the rules expressly forbid an accused going
through Adult Diversion if he or she has a conviction
for, among many other things, a Criminal
Code driving offence in the previous five
years.
The Adult Diversion Program offers offenders
the chance to avoid a conviction while still
accepting responsibility for their actions and
making reparations to their victims.
The 57-year-old, who continues to serve as
Port Hawkesbury’s bylaw enforcement officer,
returns to court in Port Hood on November
24.
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Sex charges back
against Baudoux
PICTOU COUNTY NATIVE DARRELL ROBERT
BAUDOUX IS ONCE AGAIN FACING CHARGES OF
SEXUAL ASSAULT AND GROSS INDECENCY IN-
VOLVING A MINOR.
The charges were laid in connection with incidents
that allegedly occurred between August
of 1985 and October of 1986. I understand
the alleged victim, a resident of
Stellarton, is now 41.
Back in 2007, the mother of another of
Baudoux’s alleged victims complained to me
about the province’s “so-called justice system”
after her son ceased co-operating with the prosecution
on the eve of a second trial, as he was
apparently tired of travelling back and forth from
Ontario for an endless string of court dates,
which began in 2003. The prosecution had no
choice but to withdraw the charges, which included
indecent assault, sexual assault, buggery
and attempted buggery.
Baudoux’s first trial ended in a hung jury in
2005 (Frank 518).
A preliminary hearing on the current set of
IN IN BRIEF BRIEF
charges wrapped up August 31, but a trial
date hadn’t been set before I went to press.
In the meantime, Baudoux — who according
to Provincial Court records has hung his hat
in Toronto, Oakville, Burlington and
Westville — has been ordered to stay away
from children under the age of 18.
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