Pot-shop robber’s appeal dismissed
Province’s top court upholds trial judge’s rulings against Kevin Andrew Melanson, 53
A Sackville man has lost his bid to overturn his conviction for robbing a former marijuana dispensary in Fredericton in 2018 and to lessen his prison sentence for the crime.
Kevin Andrew Melanson, 53, of Alice Street in Sackville, stood trial before a Court of King’s Bench judge and jury in late 2022 on June 16, 2018, charges of robbery and unlawful confinement.
The case arose from a violent incident at Buddy’s Cannabis Clinic on King Street in Fredericton on that date, during which Melanson led three other men and his wife, Christina Melanson, on a mission to get back $25,000 he’d invested in the business.