Drug-trafficking suspect faces new charges

Taylor Elizabeth Moore, 31, of Fredericton, released on conditions after assault allegation

A Fredericton woman awaiting trial on drug-trafficking and firearms charges found herself in custody this weekend, arrested on a new assault complaint, but she was released Monday.

Taylor Elizabeth Moore, 31, of Emmerson Street, appeared in Fredericton provincial court remotely from the women’s jail in Miramichi on Monday, scheduled to go through a bail hearing.

She was charged on the weekend of Aug. 30 counts of assaulting Melissa Martin, breaching a police undertaking to have no contact with Martin and breaching a judicial release order requiring her to observe a nightly curfew at her home.