Convicted of manslaughter in 2017, local man now charged with snubbing weapons prohibition

By Medicine Hat News on November 22, 2024.

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A Medicine Hat man who pleaded guilty to manslaughter in 2017 faces a new charge of knowingly possessing a firearm despite being prohibited by court order.

Jacob Peter Porfoun appeared in provincial Court of Justice at Medicine Hat by closed-circuit TV from the Medicine Hat Remand Centre on Thursday morning.

At that time Crown prosecutors entered a replacement set of charges and told court the charge of firearm possession would proceed by way of the more serious indictable offence.

Porfoun also faces an allegation laid by the Medicine Hat Police Service last month that he possessed stolen property valued under $5,000, false identification and broke conditions of his probation.

He has not entered a plea.

Porfoun was sentenced to seven-and-a-half years in prison for his role in the November 2016 stabbing death of a Medicine Hat man in Crescent Heights.

Another man accused in the case was found guilty of manslaughter at trial in 2018.

ALERT case moves ahead

A man who police say had a cache of firearms, body armour and drugs when he was arrested by organized crime investigators in a police stop last September will move to a preliminary hearing.

Kaden Bernard Shenkey, 39, has not yet entered a plea to 14 charges laid by the ALERT Medicine Hat office related to weapons, amounts of cocaine, methamphetamine and drug paraphernalia.

Defence lawyer Marc Crarer told court his client is in custody and wants the matter to move forward.

He elected to proceed with the accusations by way of Court of King’s Bench trial by judge alone. The matter was adjourned to the court management office to schedule a one-day preliminary hearing.

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