Faked Disappearance May Lead to Mischief Charges

[CaptainCrunch]

Did he anally rape himself for realisms sake?

[Bobblehead]

Originally Posted by fotze

I'm curious how he suddenly lost the money.

Perhaps he took his boss Scotiabank's motto, "You're Richer Then You Think" a little too literally.

[Burninator]

So he did this all to save face because he did something stupid with a large amount of money? What was the end goal exactly? I don't see how this elaborate ruse was suppose to solve the issue of the money.

[GGG]

I don't know if what he did was a crime. How does the mischief statute lead?

He damaged his property and he left his wife and kids. Its a pretty low thing to do but why can't someone just disappear. Would it still be mischief if he just left and didn't smash his car?

Provided he never reported anything or lied to the police everything he did seems to be with in the realms of the law.

[fredr123]

Originally Posted by GGG

I don't know if what he did was a crime. How does the mischief statute lead?

He damaged his property and he left his wife and kids. Its a pretty low thing to do but why can't someone just disappear. Would it still be mischief if he just left and didn't smash his car?

Provided he never reported anything or lied to the police everything he did seems to be with in the realms of the law.

Public Mischief

140. (1) Every one commits public mischief who, with intent to mislead, causes a peace officer to enter on or continue an investigation by

(a) making a false statement that accuses some other person of having committed an offence;

(b) doing anything intended to cause some other person to be suspected of having committed an offence that the other person has not committed, or to divert suspicion from himself;

(c) reporting that an offence has been committed when it has not been committed; or

(d) reporting or in any other way making it known or causing it to be made known that he or some other person has died when he or that other person has not died.

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by GGG

I don't know if what he did was a crime. How does the mischief statute lead?

He damaged his property and he left his wife and kids. Its a pretty low thing to do but why can't someone just disappear. Would it still be mischief if he just left and didn't smash his car?

Provided he never reported anything or lied to the police everything he did seems to be with in the realms of the law.

He intentionally made it look like he was kidnapped. Smashed windows, cigarettes in car, car running, left personal belongings. He knew it would attract police attention and he wanted it to. I think you are over simplifying what happened with your description.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by fredr123

Public Mischief

140. (1) Every one commits public mischief who, with intent to mislead, causes a peace officer to enter on or continue an investigation by

(a) making a false statement that accuses some other person of having committed an offence;

(b) doing anything intended to cause some other person to be suspected of having committed an offence that the other person has not committed, or to divert suspicion from himself;

(c) reporting that an offence has been committed when it has not been committed; or

(d) reporting or in any other way making it known or causing it to be made known that he or some other person has died when he or that other person has not died.

a) Nope
b) maybe, but he didn't cause a specific person to be suspected of a crime. To me this clause reads as refering to someone specific like saying your neighbour has a grow-op.
c) Nope
d) Maybe, though he more made it look like he was kidnapped not like he was dead.

I am interested to see how the lawyers handle it. Its good that the law allows you to disappear without a trace, you just can't make it look like you died in order to disappear.

[Thor]

One of my cousins had lost a huge amount of money to gambling, the day he was supposed to go and meet his wife to sign papers to buy their apartment he drove out into the middle of nowhere and killed himself.

If a big loss in money is to blame, I wonder if this guy has a gambling problem and went to this extreme in trying to hide his shame so to speak.

[GGG]

Originally Posted by Thor

One of my cousins had lost a huge amount of money to gambling, the day he was supposed to go and meet his wife to sign papers to buy their apartment he drove out into the middle of nowhere and killed himself.

If a big loss in money is to blame, I wonder if this guy has a gambling problem and went to this extreme in trying to hide his shame so to speak.

That or a nigerian money scheme victim.

[fredr123]

With respect to Darlene Heatherington and the other notorious case of public mischief from Lethbridge, she was charged on the basis of the false report she made to the police about being stalked and harassed rather than her secret escapades in Montana and the ruckus that resulted.

Heatherington was found guilty of public mischief on June 29, 2004: http://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abpc/doc...04abpc116.html

She was sentenced to a 20-month conditional sentence order which included 8-months' house arrest in September 2004: http://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abpc/doc...04abpc191.html

On appeal, the sentence was reduced to a 12-month conditional sentence: http://www.canlii.org/en/ab/abca/doc...05abca393.html

Although we don't know all of the facts in the present case, a key distinction is that Heatherington reported to the police that she was being stalked and threatened. It later turned out that she authored the letters and emails herself fabricating the entire story.

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by Thor

the day he was supposed to go and meet his wife to sign papers to buy their apartment he drove out into the middle of nowhere and killed himself.

Jesus.

[tvp2003]

Originally Posted by fotze

Wonder what Dar is doing now? Didn't she do the weather for A-Channel for a while?

Wrong Darr:

[Northendzone]

trying to decide which dar is a hotter dar.........

[WhiteTiger]

Yeah, the Police don't like having their time wasted...