Rosetown Court issues conditional sentence and multiple traffic fines

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A man who gave a woman a bloody nose after an argument “escalated” received a conditional sentence with 18 months’ probation during the Nov. 27 provincial court session.

Joshua Cardinal, 36, of Rosetown, had called police himself after hitting the woman on Oct. 12, Judge Lisa Watson heard during the session at the Elks Hall.

Cardinal must abide by conditions including abstaining from alcohol, staying out of places that sell it, and participating in any counselling or programming his probation officer requires. He must also pay a $100 victim surcharge, stay away from the woman if he has consumed alcohol within 12 hours, and not possess any weapons or ammunition, except when hunting legally.

• Fazal E. Anwar, 46, of Saskatoon, must pay $843 after Judge Watson found him guilty in a trial of going at least 50 kilometres per hour over the speed limit.
  The accused did not testify but denied telling the officer, who stopped him on June 29 on Highway 7 west of Rosetown, that he was going 140 km/h.
  He also questioned why a screenshot from a video of the incident showed the RCMP officer’s vehicle going 103 km/h and his going 152 km/h, rather than the 102 and 154 km/h, respectively, that the officer had testified the video showed at one point. The video was not shown during the trial.
  The officer testified that he had given Anwar a seven-day licence suspension, had the vehicle impounded, and then drove the accused and his passenger to the Saskatoon airport.
  Anwar said he had seen nothing about either vehicle’s speeds on the video he received before the trial. The officer said he must not have clicked a certain button.

• Michelle Gilles, 48, of Kerrobert, was ordered to pay a fine of $580 for driving an unregistered vehicle near Zealandia on Sept. 16. The vehicle’s registration had expired on May 6, a prosecutor said.

• Adriana Van Reeuwyk, 70, of Lethbridge, must pay $514 for not slowing to 60 km/h when passing a police vehicle with its emergency lights flashing near Zealandia on Sept. 18.
  The woman, participating by phone, said she had been on the other side of the highway and that “a bunch of cars” in her lane also had not slowed to 60 km/h. Van Reeuwyk had been going 93 km/h.
  Judge Watson said the law in Alberta is now the same as in Saskatchewan: drivers must slow to 60 km/h in such situations unless the police vehicle is on the other side of a divided highway.

• Reece P. Parisotto, 27, of Airdrie, Alta., was fined $200 instead of the $300 voluntary payment after requesting a lesser fine. Police stopped her vehicle after it registered 135 km/h on radar near McGee on Sept. 27.

• Yanina Eberhard, 49, of Saskatoon, must pay $198 for going 124 km/h near Zealandia on Sept. 18. A prosecutor withdrew a ticket for driving an unregistered vehicle after the woman said she had paid the fee and it had been unregistered for “a very short time.”

• Ananna Arna, 26, of Saskatoon, must pay $192 for going 121 km/h near Tessier on Sept. 27.

• Mohammad Helat, 47, of Chestermere, Alta., must pay $178 after pleading guilty through a lawyer who arranged for the prosecutor to agree to an official speed of 109 km/h. Helat’s vehicle had registered 122 km/h on police radar near Tessier on Sept. 2.

• Bethanne E. Wilson, 33, of Delisle, was fined $150 after requesting a reduction from $202 for going 126 km/h near Tessier on Sept. 1.

Judge Watson also fined 44 people the voluntary amounts on their tickets and approved an arrest warrant for one individual while issuing default convictions for those who did not attend to contest their traffic tickets.

The judge also scheduled a traffic trial and adjourned seven criminal cases and six traffic matters.