Susan Yanagisawa
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Kingston: J.A.K.K. Tuesdays owner fails in bid to have court order lifted over violations of COVID-19 bylaws
The owner of J.A.K.K. Tuesdays Sports Pub tried but failed on Friday to convince a judge to lift the restraining order and injunction. → Read More
Trucker in fatal Kingston-area Highway 401 pileup sentenced to prison
A 41-year-old former big-rig driver from Quebec, whose inattention behind the wheel four years ago was determined at trial to have caused a six-vehicle… → Read More
Evidence all in on Highway 401 fatal crash, final arguments in January
The defence case concluded Thursday for trucker Dunhill Tabanao, a 39-year-old Quebec man currently on trial in Kingston’s Superior Court of Justice on multiple counts of criminal negligence causing death and bodily harm, arising out of his involvement in a fatal six-vehicle collision on Highway 401 in May 2017. Superior Court Justice Gary Tranmer won’t […] → Read More
Defence expert thinks trucker tried to steer clear before Hwy 401 crash
The trial of the 39-year-old trucker charged with multiple counts of criminal negligence causing death and bodily harm in connection with a six-vehicle collision on Highway 401 two and a half years ago began Wednesday with a ruling from Superior Court Justice Gary Tranmer, admitting into evidence a 2015 accident report involving Dunhill Tabanao. Ontario […] → Read More
Kingston trial told crash truck was equipped with powerful braking system
An Ontario Provincial Police constable, who is also an experienced mechanic certified to work on and inspect heavy trucks, told Superior Court Justice Gary Tranmer on Tuesday that the truck Dunhill Tabanao was driving the night he was involved in a fatal crash on Highway 401 was equipped with a diesel engine brake, also known […] → Read More
Witness in fatal Hwy 401 crash trial says traffic slowdown was evident
Only one witness testified Friday at the trial of Dunhill Tabanao, the 39-year-old trucker charged in connection with a fatal six-vehicle collision two and a half years ago on Highway 401 between Joyceville Road and Highway 15. Patrick Sevigny, 44, was at the front of a queue of four westbound heavy trucks, with a Ford […] → Read More
Expert thinks trucker charged in fatal crash should have seen something
An Ontario Provincial Police collision reconstruction officer, qualified in court as an expert witness on the subject, has testified that there was no signage on Highway 401 between Joyceville Road and Highway 15 that would have indicated there was construction up ahead to westbound motorists on the night of a fatal six-vehicle collision two and […] → Read More
Trial begins for truck driver in fatal 401 collision
An Ontario Provincial Police expert in collision reconstruction testified Monday at the Superior Court trial of a truck driver accused of initiating a fatal six-vehicle collision that data from his truck’s control module indicates he was travelling at 99 to 100 km/h in the 59 seconds before his tractor-trailer struck a line of vehicles from […] → Read More
Man's mental health aggravated by meth use
KINGSTON — A mentally ill Kingston man who racked up eight charges and accumulated about five months of pretrial custody in a little more than a year while self-medicating with crystal meth has been placed on probation and ordered to co-operate with his treatment team. → Read More
Man says time in custody away from drugs saved life
A drug-addicted building trades worker who was scavenging parts from other people’s vehicles in the first half of this year will be spending his Thanksgiving in jail following his conviction on a mixed bag of almost a dozen charges. → Read More
Correctional officer gets suspended sentence for using meth on duty
A federal correctional service officer who got sick and collapsed at work last September under the influence of methamphetamine has been placed on probation for 12 months and ordered to perform 30 hours of community service and to complete assessments, counselling and programs of rehabilitation as directed by her probation officer, especially for substance abuse. → Read More
Son found guilty of manslaughter in father's death
KINGSTON — After 17 hours of deliberation over two days, the jury on the trial of Robert J. Watts found him not guilty Tuesday night of second-degree murder but guilty of manslaughter in the September 2015 death of his 65-year-old father. → Read More
Second-degree murder trial goes to jury on Monday
The evidence has all been presented at the second-degree murder trial of a 27-year-old Ajax man charged in the death of his father, 65-year-old John David Watts, four years ago at the family cottage north of Kingston. → Read More
Second-degree murder trial jury back Friday for closing arguments
Thursday was an unscheduled day off for the eight men and four women selected to decide the case of Robert J. Watts, a 27-year-old Ajax man currently on trial in Kingston’s Superior Court of Justice for second-degree murder in connection with the death of his father four years ago at Cranberry Lake, north of Kingston […] → Read More
Mother of man on trial for father's murder thought they'd be ok
The mother of Robert J. Watts, who is currently on trial in Kingston’s Superior Court of Justice for second-degree murder in the death of his father, told jurors on Wednesday that her late husband “was a good provider for the family and he loved his children, but he had his issues. → Read More
Dead man's daughter urged parents not to go to Cranberry Lake
Robert Watts’ older sister told the judge and jury at her brother’s second-degree murder trial on Tuesday that the night before her father was killed at the family cottage on South Frontenac Township’s Cranberry Lake, her brother called her from the Ajax-Pickering Public Library. → Read More
Man's death result of devastating injuries to face, head
Forensic pathologist Dr. Christopher M. Milroy told jurors sitting this week in Kingston's Superior Court of Justice that the death of John David Watts was the result of head and facial injuries he sustained the night of Sept. → Read More
Speeding charge morphed to impaired to murder in hours
OPP Const. John Cambridge told jurors at Robert Watts’ second-degree murder trial on Friday that he initially thought he was dealing with a simple case of speeding on Highway 401 when he pulled over the then 23-year-old around 1 a. → Read More
Murder trial begins in cottage country death
KINGSTON — Four years after the body of 65-year-old John D. Watts of Ajax was found by OPP officers on the lawn of his Trillium Lane cottage in South Frontenac Township, his son is standing trial in front of a jury in Kingston’s Superior Court of Justice. → Read More
Man jailed after attack on pizza man provoked by parking pique
A 48-year-old Kingston man who raged out on a then 26-year-old pizza delivery man he perceived to be disrespecting him last year, tailing the younger man back to the Warne Crescent Pizza Hut and punching him at least five times in the parking lot before the business’s manager intervened, will be spending the rest of his weekends this year in Quinte Detention Centre. → Read More