Assault on officer costs man jail

By Delon Shurtz on March 12, 2021.

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com

Assaulting a police officer with a urine-soaked T-shirt has earned a Brocket man a short stint behind bars.
Jonah Shining Double pleaded guilty Thursday in Lethbridge provincial court to one count of assaulting a peace officer, and was sentenced to 30 days in jail.
Court was told Shining Double was arrested about midnight May 26, 2020 for causing mischief at a residence in Brocket. Police officers arrested him and placed him in a cell, where Shining Double began screaming, dancing and punching the wall.
An officer entered the cell to help Shining Double or determine what was wrong with the prisoner, but Shining Double shoved a urine-soaked shirt in the officer’s face and began fighting with him, as well as a second officer who entered the cell shortly afterward.
The fight moved outside the cell where Shining Double was tasered and taken to the ground, and while the police report doesn’t indicate the offender was injured, he told court he was hurt by the officers during the struggle.
“They broke my ribs then they tasered me,” he said from the Lethbridge Correctional Centre, where he appeared by closed-circuit TV.
Crown Prosecutor Bruce Ainscough said Shining Double was high on methamphetamine at the time of the assault, but after he sobered up, he apologized to the officers.
In addition to his jail sentence, Shining Double, who has a small criminal record for assault and obstructing a peace officer, was placed on probation for a year, during which he must be assessed and take counselling for substance abuse.
He is also prohibited from possessing or consuming intoxicating substances outside his residence.
Although Judge Gregory Maxwell accepted the joint submission from the Crown and defence for the 30-day jail sentence, he told Shining Double the sentence could have been longer.
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