Sentence passed three days before bust by DEU
Sep 22, 2008 - 04:26 PM
By Jeff Mitchell
DURHAM -- A man busted on drug and weapons charges by Durham cops last Thursday had been sentenced in an Oshawa court to a term of house arrest for robbery just three days earlier.
Court records show Jesse Dershawn Weekes, 20, was sentenced Sept. 15 to a 10-month conditional sentence, during which he had been ordered to remain in his residence except to work or go to school and was scheduled to be fitted with an electronic tracking device. The young man was convicted of robbery and breach of probation in January.
Mr. Weekes was busted outside a Scarborough residence as members of Durham’s Drug Enforcement Unit executed a search warrant Thursday, Sept. 18. Police allege he had two loaded handguns -- a .9-mm semi-automatic and a .357 Magnum -- and more than 30 grams of crack cocaine in his possession.
In addition to the weapons and drug charges announced last week by Durham police, court records indicate a charge of breaching a conditional sentence was laid.
Mr. Weekes, of McClure Crescent in Toronto, was taken into custody and was scheduled to appear in court by video Tuesday.
Under the terms of his conditional sentence, imposed by Ontario Justice Kofi Barnes, Mr. Weekes was to remain in his residence except for work, school or medical appointments and had been ordered to be of good behaviour and keep the peace. He had been ordered to stay away from an address in Whitby and was prohibited from communicating with two individuals named in court documents.
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