Woman lands jail sentence for threat to parents’ home

By Delon Shurtz - Lethbridge Herald on September 15, 2023.

LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.com

A Lethbridge woman who threatened to burn down her parents home will spend a few weeks behind bars.
At about 5:30 p.m. on Sept. 13 of last year, a man called police and said his daughter, Kristen Rebecca Riemann, had been at his home on 14 Avenue South and threatened to burn down the residence.
About 90 minutes earlier the man’s wife had noticed their daughter in the backyard, in contravention of a court order. After being told to leave, Riemann angrily threatened to take certain items from the yard she had given her parents years earlier, then she grew even angrier and told her mother she was going to burn down the house.
Riemann left the home, but returned minutes later and continued to argue with her mother. When she left a second time she left near the front door a catalogue in which she had written a message.
“Although the entire message was not legible, it did state in part that, ‘and I would burn down a pedophile’s house before mine,’ ” said Kindra Brooks, an articling student with the Crown’s office.
Riemann pleaded guilty Thursday in Lethbridge court of justice to one count of uttering threats to burn her parents property. She was sentenced to 30 days in jail and placed on probation for one year, during which she is not to have any contact with her parents or go to their home.
Riemann also pleaded guilty to charges of mischief causing damage and shoplifting, for which she was sentenced to another 15 days in jail.
Court was told that on Sept. 25, 2022 security at the Park Place Mall had detained Riemann after she stole a pair of shoes and put them in a trash can “in hopes of making them unsaleable so she could take them later.”
Riemann was also arrested earlier the same month after she stole about $400 worth of merchandise from Super Store on Mayor Magrath Drive South. The following day a police officer viewed video surveillance footage at the store and recognized Riemann from previous interactions only two days earlier.
Brooks pointed out Riemann’s criminal record includes convictions for property and violence-related offences, as well as 28 convictions for breaching court orders.
Although sentenced to a total of 45 days in jail, Riemann was given credit for 51 days she spent in remand custody, effectively completing her sentence.

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