Sue Yanagisawa
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Woman's sentence gives time to treat drug issue
A local woman who suddenly began to increasingly run afoul of the law at a relatively mature age, in her mid-twenties, has been given an alternative form of sentence by a Kingston judge, in hopes of treating the drug problem thought to be the root cause. → Read More
Kingston in the courts for June 11 to 15, 2018
A partial compilation of offences from Kingston's Ontario Court of Justice for the period of June 11 to 15, 2018. Only sentences that involved a large fine, probation or incarceration are included. → Read More
Man sent to jail for theft, resisting arrest
A man whose packing skills, if not his endeavours, impressed the Crown prosecutor, was hoping to serve his sentence on weekends. But he failed to convince the judge that his plans for employment were nearly as squared away. → Read More
Convicted sex offender locked up indefinitely
A sexual predator, originally from North Bay, but for the past 12 years in and out of area prisons and the province's federally run community correctional centres -- including Kingston's controversial Portsmouth Centre and its successor, Henry Traill -- has been locked up indefinitely. → Read More
Man sent to prison for Kingston home invasion
A Kingston man whose lawyer said he claims to have been at the end of a five-day drug and alcohol bender in February when he took over the Kingscourt-area home of a senior citizen, holding the man captive for more than an hour, has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison. → Read More
Man’s threatening outbursts keep him in jail
A mentally ill Kingston man who decided to push the limits of free speech past offensive all the way to criminal in early May has been sentenced to jail for a second time this year. → Read More
Bedford denied bail
Kingston's most infamous resident, internet child predator Mark Gary Bedford, who's been back in custody for the past two weeks accused of violating conditions of a special public safety peace bond, has been denied release on bail. → Read More
‘Bad driver’ jailed for fatal crash
A commercial truck driver who lost control of his southbound big rig on Perth Road three years ago, crossed into the northbound lane and collided with the motorcycle of 30-year-old Master Cpl. Ryan (Alex) New, killing him, has been sentenced to two years less one day in provincial jail and prohibited for five years from driving in Canada. → Read More
Man’s sentence reduced after violent swarming
A Kingston man whose criminal record attests that he’s not averse to using violence caught a break in court, ironically because he became a victim of violence while in Quinte Detention Centre. → Read More
Wish for more time behind bars granted
Although counterintuitive, a homeless Kingston man who got caught, not for the first time, letting it all hang out asked the judge for more time rather than less. → Read More
Multiple offences land man in prison
A Kingston man who wasn't able to make it a whole month on bail without drugs and weapons will have just shy of four years to work on his priorities. → Read More
Man gets more jail time for bail violations
A 53-year-old grandfather appeared the image of dejection standing in the prisoner’s box in Kingston’s Ontario Court of Justice, telling the judge his actions in April and May don’t reflect his normal behaviour. → Read More
Man awaits sentencing on home invasion, assault
The Crown prosecutor and a 31-year-old Kingston man’s own lawyer both agree he should go to prison for terrorizing a 70-year-old random stranger in his own home in February. → Read More
Bedford charged with peace bond violations
Convicted online child predator Mark Bedford, who’s nearing the end of a special public protection peace bond prohibiting his access to the internet, has been charged with violating conditions of the order. → Read More
Wannabe pimp gets time served
Had it been left entirely up to him, the judge suggested it might not have been the disposition he would have imposed on a young, wannabe pimp. → Read More
Prison lifer pleads guilty to assaulting officer
A federal inmate, worried that he might have flushed his already tenuous chance of making parole when he attacked a correctional service officer with the metal frame of a toilet paper dispenser, tried to convince a Kingston judge it was out of character -- and to shave a couple of months off his sentence. → Read More
Jail term extends man’s visit to city
A Peterborough-area man probably won’t be giving Kingston great reviews as a destination after a visit here in March secured him the equivalent of a six-month stay in provincial jail. → Read More
Man admits trying to steal copper from utility
It may be a testament to the prevalence of local copper thievery that a 46-year-old Kingston man claimed in court it was pure happenstance that he was caught pilfering the metal from Utilities Kingston’s Lappan’s Lane yard at exactly the same time another man was in there doing the same thing. → Read More
Kingston man pleads guilty to break-in, theft
One year into the federal sentence he received in 2017, Gordon T. Shelly’s former associates from Kingston’s streets would be hard-pressed to recognize him. → Read More
Kingston pair plead guilty to drug offences
A middle-age Kingston couple probably didn’t need to be reminded of the inherent dangers of drug dealing. But Superior Court Justice Gary Tranmer told them anyway, and he told them as well that “a message has to be sent that trafficking in illegal substances is not to be tolerated in this community.” → Read More