Manslaughter charges stayed in overdose case
LETHBRIDGE – Two charges of manslaughter against a 43-year-old Blood Tribe man have been stayed by the Crown, following a guilty plea to one count of trafficking.
The stay for Bobby Weasel Head was granted Monday morning (Sept. 11) to discontinue the case. The Crown does retain the right to recommence the proceedings within one year.
The guilty plea came last Wednesday (Sept. 6), with Weasel Head admitting to distributing fentanyl to his friends. He was sentenced to nine months in jail, with credit for 11-days in pre-trial custody.
“We agreed that the accused would plead guilty to trafficking and we laid a replacement information to deal with that, and then we would stay the [Queen’s Bench] indictment,” explained Joshua Chan, a Crown prosecutor with the Calgary Rural and Regional Response Office.