Trial set in drug-trafficking, firearms case

Erica Lea Ann Blyth, 41, and Devon Mark Hill Hood, 26, will stand trial on meth, cocaine, Dilaudid charges as well as weapons allegations before their first-degree murder case

A Minto-area woman and a Fredericton man set to stand trial more than a year from now on a murder charge will first be tried for drug-trafficking and firearms counts alleged to have happened after the homicide.

Erica Lea Ann Blyth, 41, of Wasson Road in Newcastle Creek near Minto, and Devon Mark Hill Hood, 26, of Veterans Drive in Fredericton, appeared by telephone in the Court of King’s Bench at the Burton Courthouse on Monday.

It was motions day in King’s Bench, and the pair’s trial dates were to be set and confirmed.