A man facing drug trafficking charges will serve no jail time following a sentencing session at Estevan provincial court on Monday.
A pre-sentence report was completed to assist presiding Judge Karl Bazin in sentencing Raven Engel who pleaded guilty to two charges of possessing drugs for the purpose of trafficking, as well as one count of possessing property obtained by crime.
Engel was 19 when he was arrested in June 2011. He now lives in British Columbia.
Bazin presented his decision to sentence Engel to a 14-month conditional sentence order, allowing him to serve a term of custody outside of the criminal correctional system.
Engel will be subject to a number of conditions for the next 14 months, including being placed on house arrest for the first six months of the order, with permission to leave his residence only for work purposes. The following six-month period will see Engel the subject to a curfew from 10 p.m. to 7 a.m.
During this order he will also be under electronic monitoring and must submit to a search of his person without warrant or reasonable grounds. The federal Crown prosecutor requested peace officers not require reasonable grounds to search Engel, considering that the conditional sentence order is considered a jail term served in the community, and were he in jail, warrants and appropriate grounds to search would not be necessary.
Engel must also complete 120 hours of community service and is subject to a 10-year firearms prohibition.
Engel also supplied DNA samples at Estevan Police Service prior to returning to B.C.
