A sentencing hearing is scheduled tomorrow for the President of the Saint John Bacchus Motorcycle Club.
44-year-old, Brian Schofield of Public Landing and five others were arrested after a regonial drug bust in August.
Police
seized meth, pot, pills, guns, brass knuckles and four grand in cash.
The bust following a six-month investigation involving four local police
agencies.
Schofield plead guilty earlier to possession for the purpose of trafficking.
A
former Bacchus member, 39-year-old Ryan Wallace of Kingston, is also due
in court tomorrow. He's facing drug charges that include possession and
trafficking, along with having two unlicensed rifles.
The
upcoming Legislative session which opens tomorrow afternoon could be
raucous with the state of the economy, shale gas and a provincial
election in less than a year.
A
universal prescription drug plan is expected to be unveiled. Fundy-River
Valley independent M-L-A Dr. Jim Parrot tells Tide News expensive drugs
for catastrophic illness should be included but we should be thinking
outside the box.
He says we should try to make a deal with the
Fed and another Medical Societies in the country to create a national
system so no one has to go it alone.
Dr. Parrot goes so far as to say the survival of Medicare depends on getting this right.
Saint John City
police are looking for a man who came into the Tim's on Landsdowne
Avenue last night and took a picture of woman using the ladies'
washroom.
It happened just after 8:30 last night.
Sgt. Jay
Henderson of the City police telling Tide News the man went in the
ladies washroom and using a cellphone type device took the picture of a
woman in a bathroom stall.
The man is described as 17 years old, about 5 foot 10, thin with fair skin wearing an
army green jacket, black jeans, black shoes with a white stripe and a black and red hat with a red beak.
The patrol division of the SJPF is looking into the incident.
Prime
Minister Harper is said to be exerting pressure on Conservative Senators
to vote in favour of suspending Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin and Patrick
Brazeau.
Political
Scientist Don Desserud who's in favour of reforming the Senate, tells Tide News getting rid of the Senate entirely may not turn out to be the
best thing for our democracy because its abolition would leave even more
power in the hands of a Prime Minister. He argues there has to be some
body in place as a check against unbridled power wielded by the party
that controls Parliament.
Desserud maintains electing Senators would give them more independence from the Prime Minister who appointed them.
The
Senate is expected to vote this week, perhaps as early as tomorrow, on
the fates of Senators Pamela Wallin, Mike Duffy and Patrick Brazeau.
Polls
indicate more people are believing Duffy's version of what transpired
than the Prime Minister with a large percentage believing neither. New
Brunswick born Senator Jim Munson tells Tide News it's difficult to say
who's telling the truth but says it's all politics now.
A top
federal cabinet minister Jason Kenny is defending Nigel Wright as a man
of “strong ethical character,” even as the Prime Minister last week
told Parliament his former chief of staff is the sole person responsible
for “this deception.”
