Lethbridge woman sentenced for multiple offences

By Delon Shurtz on June 5, 2021.

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com

A 36-year-old Lethbridge woman arrested last month on outstanding warrants, has been sentenced for several offences she committed last summer.
Misty-Rae Visser was sentenced to 30 days in jail after she pleaded guilty Thursday in Lethbridge provincial court to charges of drug possession, resisting arrest and failing to comply with previous release conditions.
Court was told police received a complaint on July 7, 2020 about drug activity at a city residence. Following a short investigation, which included surveillance of the residence, police swooped in and searched the home. They found Visser in a bedroom, along with .8 grams of methamphetamine and nine codeine pills.
On Sept. 30 police investigating suspected drug trafficking saw a pickup truck in the parking lot of Lethbridge Casino, and watched Visser walk back and forth between the truck and a trailer also parked on the lot. Visser was one of three people who entered the truck and then drove downtown. As the truck drove around town, police observed them trafficking drugs.
The truck eventually stopped at Galt Gardens, and when police approached Visser, she was in the park lying on the ground. Lying beside her was a bag containing 6.2 grams of fentanil and $724 cash.
Visser argued with police and insisted they had no right to arrest her or take her property. She continued to argue, refused to be handcuffed, and laid on the ground with her hands under her body. Following a struggle with officers, she was eventually handcuffed.
At the time of her arrest she was on release conditions from an unrelated matter that she not be in a motor vehicle without the registered owner.
Although sentenced to 90 days in custody, Visser was given full credit for time served in pre-trial custody, which concludes her sentence. She remains in custody, however, on other charges, including taking a vehicle without the owner’s consent, to which she pleaded not guilty, and flight from police, dangerous operation of a motor vehicle and possession of stolen property, on which she returns to court next Friday.
Additional charges of drug possession, failure to comply with release conditions, failure to comply with an undertaking, and possession of stolen property, were withdrawn.

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