Inmate tells judge he wants to resolve jail arson charges
Crown alleges thousands of dollars of damage done to jail during arson
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Two inmates accused of setting a fire at the Shediac jail earlier this year appeared in Moncton provincial court on Tuesday, with one of them telling the judge he may plead out after talking with his lawyer.
“I’m looking to resolve it,” said Dylan Alexander Jackson, 28, of Doaktown, from the prisoner’s dock.
Jackson and Hunter Nash England, 21, of Moncton, were charged on Friday with offences dating to Jan. 10 in Shediac. They are charged with mischief for doing more than $5,000 in damage to a jail cell at the Southeast Regional Correctional Centre, committing arson and possessing incendiary material.
Both men are remanded pending unrelated upcoming trials but the Crown objected to their release on the new charges as well. They were uncooperative during their telephone court appearance Friday so the judge ordered them brought in person on Tuesday for bail hearings.
Jackson told the judge he didn’t want a bail hearing.
“There’s no point in doing that,” he said.
Jackson said he has a lawyer for another ongoing matter and told the judge if he had a few minutes to use the phone to get advice, he could probably deal with the charges immediately. His case was set over until Friday so he would have more time to get legal advice.
England was next in court and his pleas on the charges were adjourned to May 8. The court was told by duty counsel Michel DesNeiges that England will return after Jackson’s next appearance to “address whatever might remain.”
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