In Today's Winnipeg Sun:
http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/manitoba/2009/02/05/8271316-sun.html
The son of Manitoba Metis Federation president David Chartrand has been sentenced to three years in prison after pleading guilty to a series of drug-fuelled break-ins and robberies.
At a sentencing hearing Tuesday, Judge Heather Pullan gave Christopher Guiboche, 24, double credit of two years for time already served, reducing his remaining sentence to one year.
Guiboche was arrested Oct. 30, 2007 after police spotted him on the roof of a Regent Avenue liquor commission, the lookout during an attempted break-in.
He was released on a promise to appear, only to be re-arrested two weeks later after robbing a North End bingo hall.
Court heard Guiboche threatened a volunteer with a pellet gun before making off with $1,000 cash.
RETURNED TO CUSTODY
Guiboche was released on bail the following January but was returned to custody three months later when his father reported he was continuing to use crack.
During an interview with police, Guiboche confessed to breaking in to the MMF'S Henry Street office on Oct. 20, 2007 and stealing $1,400 from a bank machine.
Guiboche was previously employed as a security officer at the building but was fired after he repeatedly showed up drunk for work.
"He knows he has disappointed his father and he knows he has disappointed his community," said defence lawyer Lisa Labossiere.
Chartrand described his son as a "kind, hard-working, compassionate boy" driven to crime by his addiction to drugs, Labossiere said.
"He did not know who his son was. His son was a different person."
Pullan rejected a defence request Guiboche be sentenced to time served, saying he has shown no evidence he is ready to abide by probation conditions.
After being released by police following his first arrest, Guiboche's behaviour "escalated to a shocking extent," Pullan said.
"The degree of brazenness for a man just released for a break-in is alarming."
Thursday, February 5, 2009
Being President can get your children in the headlines when things go wrong....
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You figure the amount of funding and Information sources being President of the MMF, he could of gotten him into a Treatment Program.
I guess he is 24 and on his own, but then again if someone doesn't want treatment there is not much you can do.
To bad we didn't have healing circles, where Elders can sentence Youth to a small ration of food, a bow and arrow and isolation in a small cabin in the wilderness.. 'grin' like they used to do before when someone was not good for the community.
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