By Troy Gillard

COURT BRIEFS

Jail time for man who shot person who interrupted break and enter

May 22, 2019 | 12:02 PM

A man arrested and charged following a shooting incident in Anders in 2017 will spend three more years behind bars.

Darren Curtis Lagrelle pleaded guilty in March to aggravated assault and robbery in Red Deer provincial court and was sentenced to 60 months behind bars, minus 23 months’ credit for time already spent in custody. He was also fined nearly $2700 and given a lifetime ban from owning or possessing firearms.

Lagrelle was arrested on Sept. 12, 2017 after a victim was shot while interrupting a break in at a home on Asmundsen Avenue.

RCMP said the suspect was carrying a long-barrel small caliber firearm and a machete at the time. The victim suffered a non-life threatening gunshot wound to his back and numerous cuts during a struggle with the suspect.

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In February 2017, Lagrelle was sentenced to three years in jail – minus credit for time served – for an incident at a hotel in north Red Deer in 2015 where a man was held at gunpoint and had the word “Snitch” burned into his chest with a hot knife.

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A man arrested during a break and enter in Red Deer in March will go to trial in December.

Jeremy Hiebert, 38, is charged with 24 counts that include break and enter, theft of a motor vehicle, resist/obstruct peace officer, possession of stolen property, possession of a controlled substance, fail to comply with conditions and several firearm-related counts.

At around 2:45 a.m. on March 14, Red Deer Mounties were tipped off about a break and enter in progress at an apartment complex on 52 Avenue. Police arrested one suspect while another fled on foot.

Hiebert’s trial in Red Deer provincial court is slated for Dec. 19-20.

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A former Western Hockey League player and another man accused of drug trafficking have had the charges against them withdrawn.

Jordan Hale was arrested last July after RCMP seized cocaine and cash from a home in Sunnybrook.

Hale, 28, and Mack Hawthorne, 23, were each charged with one count of possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking and one count of property obtained by crime over $5,000.

However, those charges were withdrawn ahead of a preliminary hearing scheduled for last month.

Hale, a Lacombe native, played for the Brandon Wheat Kings in the WHL from 2007-10.