Whitehorse Daily Star

Two accused men awaiting trial

The first of two trials stemming from search warrants conducted on a Riverdale townhouse will begin next month.

By Whitehorse Star on September 27, 2007

The first of two trials stemming from search warrants conducted on a Riverdale townhouse will begin next month.

Jason Johnson, who's facing a charge of possession of drugs for trafficking, is set to go to trial Oct. 10.

Eli Auclair, 23, facing the same charge, will go to trial Dec. 3.

Last May, the RCMP executed a search warrant on a Riverdale townhouse, turning up nine firearms, $20,000 in cash, crack cocaine, powdered cocaine, marijuana and ecstasy. Five people were arrested in relation to the raid.

Earlier this month, territorial court Judge John Faulkner sentenced John Bourne to two years and nine months in prison on nine counts of unlawfully possessing firearms knowing the possession was unauthorized and one charge of possession of cocaine for trafficking. Bourne pleaded guilty to the charges, court documents state.

Kelly Auclair also pleaded guilty to a charge of possession of drugs for trafficking and was sentenced to one day deemed served and a two-year probation term, it was noted in the documents.

In sentencing, it's noted Faulkner took into consideration the seven months Bourne and Kelly Auclair spent in remand custody.

A total of 28 charges nine of the careless use of a firearm, nine of the unauthorized possession of a firearm, nine of possession of a firearm knowing its possession was unauthorized and one of possession of drugs for trafficking had been originally laid against Kelly Auclair and Bourne, as well as Matthew Devellano.

All charges against Devellano were stayed as well as the remaining charges to which Bourne and Kelly Auclair hadn't pled.

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