Judge Martin Nadon ordered a psychological report for a man who admitted on Wednesday, Dec. 11 to spitting in an RCMP officer’s face and smearing feces in a Prince George detachment jail cell.
Justin Alexander Book, born in 2000, pleaded guilty via videoconference to charges that he assaulted a peace officer and committed mischief under $5,000.
Prince George Provincial Court heard that police were called at 6:12 p.m. on June 15 after a man complained that his neighbour had threatened him with a large pipe wrench.
Book fled in a vehicle, but was eventually located by RCMP officers who used their vehicles to surround his.
Court heard he complied with their orders to remove the keys from the ignition. An officer noticed a large pipe wrench on the passenger seat and pulled it away from Book, who exited the vehicle and was arrested without incident. Officers found fireworks in his glove compartment and a lighter and matches elsewhere in the vehicle, all significant because Book had been prohibited in Ontario from possessing explosives, accelerants and lighters.
Book denied that he threatened the man with the wrench, but police reported his eyes were glossy and partially closed, he slurred his words and moved slowly.
The vehicle was impounded and Book banned for driving for 24 hours. Book spat in a sergeant’s face at the detachment where he also defecated on the floor and smeared it around a cell.
Nadon ordered a pre-sentence report and a psychological report with a risk assessment for the next court date on March 12.
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