Court Briefs: Nov. 28

Shae Lee Phillips and Nicholas Wales were each charged after being arrested for the October incidents. In February, Wales was sentenced to 3.5 years behind bars while charges against Phillips were withdrawn.

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A man charged in the abduction of a 48-year-old woman in Red Deer is going to trial.

It was shortly before 7 a.m. on Wednesday, October 17 when Red Deer RCMP responded to a gas station on 39 Street near 40 Avenue after a witness reported seeing a woman possibly being forced into a maroon Chevrolet Avalanche.

Mounties were able to identify a possible victim and one possible suspect. Police checked numerous residences and vehicles matching the description of the suspect Avalanche throughout the day. The RCMP Major Crimes Unit (MCU) out of Edmonton and the RCMP Emergency Response Team also were also called in.

The vehicle was located that afternoon in south Red Deer. Police arrested one male suspect at the scene and a second male suspect later that evening. The suspects were known to the victim, who suffered minor injuries, according to RCMP.

David Lee Gallinger, 25, is charged with kidnapping. He pleaded not guilty in Red Deer provincial court Friday and will stand trial February 7, 2019.

Ernest Frederick Ward, 47, is charged with kidnapping, forcible confinement, assault, sexual assault, uttering threat to cause death or bodily harm, obstructing justice, and two counts of failing to comply with conditions of an undertaking. He faces a preliminary hearing on July 8, 2019.

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A preliminary hearing has been waived for a Red Deer man accused of using ponzi schemes to steal millions of dollars from investors.

Joshua James Tenhove was charged after Mounties conducted a search warrant at a home on C&E Trail north of Red Deer on December 19, 2017.

Mounties began investigating in April 2016 over reports of suspected fraud involving the purchase, sale and rental of mobile light towers by Silvertip Energy Inc. It was alleged that the owner of Silvertip had sold or rented light towers with the same serial number to multiple investors and had also sold or rented units that were never manufactured.

Police say five individual and corporate investors in Canada and the United States were taken for a total of $10.2 million.

Tenhove is charged with faces charges of laundering the proceeds of crime, fraud over $5,000, and possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000 and has chosen to be tried by jury.

Trial dates have not been set.

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Two men charged in a string of crimes early this year are set for trial in January.

Lyle Vance, 41, faces 54 charges while Lyle Anderson, 27, faces 39 counts in relation to the series of events that included a break and enter and assault in Gasoline Alley on Jan. 31, three armed robberies in Bashaw in February, a flight from police incident in Sylvan Lake on Feb. 22.

Anderson was arrested by Ponoka Mounties on April 16. Vance was arrested on April 25 in Mirror following a carjacking and possible kidnapping attempt in Red Deer earlier that day.

Vance and Anderson are scheduled for trial in Stettler on January 10.

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A Ponoka man charged in a series of break and enters will stand trial next spring.

Michael Allan Richter, 39, faces 41 counts relating to incidents in Joffre, Blackfalds, Bashaw, Wetaskiwin and Rimbey.

Richter’s trial is scheduled for May 28 in Stettler.

by Troy Gillard (Twitter: @Troy_Gillard)

Court Briefs: Nov. 28

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