Sheffield standoff linked to robbery - RCMP
Brandon Jason Dean Canning, 39, and Justin Blosser, 49, were remanded pending bail hearings on allegations of robbing man of gold chain, prescribed oxycodone pills in Waasis
Two men were remanded this week on robbery and firearms charges in an alleged incident in Waasis on Sunday that led to a police operation in Sheffield that same evening.
Brandon Jason Dean Canning, 39, of Morehouse Road in Haneytown, appeared in Fredericton provincial court by telephone from the RCMP detachment in Oromocto on Monday afternoon.
He was charged with counts of using a handgun to rob Douglas Brown of a gold chain and oxycodone pills, pointing the firearm at Brown, possessing the handgun for the purpose of committing an offence, possessing it without a licence, possessing it knowing he didn’t have a licence for it, using the handgun carelessly and breaching a probation order.
All eight counts allege events in Waasis on Sunday.