NEWS FILE PHOTO The Medicine Hat Provincial Court is seen in this file photo.
Sentencing for the remaining Spice Hut robber has been adjourned for a third time.
Michael Mingo pled guilty in May to robbery and wearing a disguise in relation to an incident on Oct. 5, 2018, where he and Jayson Arndt entered the Spice Hut restaurant in the Travelodge Hotel wearing masks and armed with a pellet gun, demanding cash.
He was scheduled to be sentenced in provincial court Tuesday, but it was adjourned to March 5 because defence counsel said it needs more time for a psychological risk assessment.
Mingo was originally scheduled to be sentenced in August, but the Southern Alberta Forensic Psychiatry Centre hadn’t contacted defence lawyer James Roleau to provide information for what he called a “very important document.”
It was adjourned to November, where court heard that the assessment had yet to be completed.
Arndt was sentenced to a total of 32 months in prison for the same offences Mingo pled guilty to, while the pair’s getaway driver – Kristopher Hansen – was sentenced to a year.
Counsel for Arndt argued Mingo pressured Arndt into committing the robbery.
