Six Figure Fine For Port City Businessman

A Saint John businessman has a year to pay a six-figure fine after pleading guilty to charges of tax evasion. 

Bruce English, the owner of environment dust control business Soil Solutions, has been fined over 200-thousand-dollars, which makes up 75% of the taxes he tried to evade. 

Over 120-thousand-dollars of that amount is for not reporting his business income between 2006-2008 and 100-thousand dollars for making false statements on his HST returns and understating his payable HST over the same three years.

RCMP Seize Enough Pot To Create 85,000 Joints

Police seizing hash oil, marijuana plants and dried marijuana from a home near Florenceville-Bristol, and they say, 85-thousand joints could have been made from the seizure.

The Mounties and the Woodstock Police Force used a search warrant in a house in Piercemont, and during their search, they also recovered an ATV that was reported as stolen back in 2011.

A 59-year-old man and a 60-year-old woman were arrested. 

They're going to be in court at a later date and are expected to face multiple charges.

The Rain Is Finally Over

After a full week of rain, many of us are feeling a bit water-logged. So how much rain did we get?

Environment Canada meteorologist Claude Cote tells Tide News since last Thursday, (May 23rd, 2013)  Charlotte County reported anywhere from 85-105 mms of rain. Cote says, "That brings the total monthly rainfall to about 147 mms, typically in Charlotte County we have 118 mms, so already we are above normal."
He tells us, over the weekend, on average, communities in New Brunswick received 70 mms of rain.

Cote says St. Stephen recieved 91 mms of rain, Grand Manan reported 102, and the Bayside and St. Andrews areas with 103 mms of rain.



He adds we will soon dry out with June, July, and August in Charlotte County having warmer than normal temperatures.
Sunshine is forecast for tomorrow.

Moose On The Loose In McAdam

RCMP are warning people in McAdam of an increase in wildlife sightings -- especially moose.

Officials say in the past week alone, one officer spotted five of the animals near a roadway, they had one report of a moose in the middle of a highway that refused to move, and one vehicle collision involving a moose that caused extensive damage to the vehicle and minor injuries to the occupants.

Police ask that drivers be extra cautious along Highway 3 and Highway 4, and make sure your headlights are working well, and are clean.



Police say the majority of the sightings are in the evening or at night.

RCMP also recommending drivers to slow down, even below the recommended speed limit at night

Funeral Today For Woman Killed In K-V

There was no public visitation but a funeral service will be held this morning for 33 year old Tanya Marie Shand who was killed last week with her common law partner charged in her death. 

The funeral service starts at 11 this morning in the Kennebecasis Community Funeral Home on the Pettingill Road. 

39 year old Adam Lee Steven Prest is charged with second degree murder and is scheduled to reappear in court on June 10th. He was sent back to jail in the meantime. 

Prest was arrested after Rothesay Regional Police responded to a call at an apartment on the Dolan Road.

Changes At Murder Trial After Juror Injures Herself

The composition of the jury at the second degree murder trial of 28 year old Crystal Dawn MacKenzie has changed.

One of the jurors injured herself on the way to the jury room at the Saint John Sydney Street Courthouse and had to be taken to the hospital. 

She was replaced and the jury is now made up of six men and six women.

MacKenzie is being retried for the death of 29 year old Patrick Thomas in March of 2010 on Alma Street. 

The Court of Appeal ordered a new trial after concluding the judge at the original trial erred in his instructions to the jury.

The first trial heard plenty of testimony about MacKenzie and Thomas having a volatile and often violent relationship.

CTF Calls On Province To Stop Taxing Gas Taxes

Dig deep when traveling this season to cover the high price of gas.

Kevin Lacey of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation tells Tide News that gas taxes cost New Brunswickers $24 every time they fill up their tanks --$4 more than it cost in 2010.

He says they are calling on the government to stop taxing the taxes on gasoline when they balance the provincial books.

Lacey adds we pay taxes on everything but he would have thought the Alward government would have stopped taxing its own taxes.

Lacey says the Alward government’s 2011 gas tax hike costs provincial families $31 million this year.