I took this picture last week in the uptown are of a female panhandler.
The drug dealers are sriving around the City all day long to supply the junkies with their fix.
The police should be watching these people. Just follow the prostitutes on the streets and you'll locate the drug dealers!
NB Telegraph-Journal | Courts/Crime
As published on page B6 on March 23, 2006
Panhandler gets 10 days in jail for assaulting cops
Telegraph-Journal
Michael Francis Atwell, 42, of Sewell Street was sentenced Tuesday to 10 days in provincial jail after he pleaded guilty in provincial court in Saint John to two charges of assaulting police.
Crown prosecutor John Henheffer said police spotted Mr. Atwell panhandling in front of Pictures Plus on King Street in uptown Saint John on March 19.
Police knew Mr. Atwell from previous panhandling incidents and as they were watching him, he got into a verbal fight with a passerby.
The passerby left before the fight could escalate and one of the officers went into liquor store on King Street to talk him about the incident.
As the man was talking to the officer he said he didn't want to give a statement and that it didn't look like he had to, as Mr. Atwell had just started into a confrontation with other police officers outside the store.
When the first officer went outside, Mr. Atwell was cursing at the police and the confrontation escalated when Mr. Atwell refused to stop panhandling. As police attempted to take him into custody, he wrestled with them on the ground, eventually kicking two officers.
In addition to his time in jail, Mr. Atwell was placed on one year of probation with conditions not to be in an area bordered by Princess, Union, Sydney and Water streets and to comply with the city's panhandling bylaw.
Thursday, March 23, 2006
SAINT JOHN POLICE FORCE SHOULD BE WATCHING DRUG DEALERS AND NOT PANHANDLERS!!!
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Laws are for just the ordinary citizens our Mayor and Politicians are above the law. Disgraceful how they can spend our money and not be accountable. Change is what we have in Saint John but I think people were expecting a little change in our pockets. The hear us but they laugh in our faces each time they make deals with the Billionaires because what they won't pay or what the poor can't pay we the rest of us have to pay.
Eventually people who are put in desperate situations sometimes are pushed to do desperate things. Crime is up because they have no where to go to have someone give them a break with gas, power, car insurance, groceries, rent,mortgage, telephone, property taxes and water and sewerage and so many more things through no fault of the people because our wages don ot go up to match all surcharhes and taxes on taxes on taxes!
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