NORTH BATTLEFORD – A 19-year-old man accused of shooting at a vehicle at the Lone Star Hotel in North Battleford last year appeared in court Wednesday from the Regina Correctional Centre.
Korbin Gladue told the court he was trying to get money together for a retainer to hire Saskatoon lawyer Brent Little. Senior Crown Prosecutor Jennifer Schmidt is prosecuting the case.
Gladue is charged with numerous firearms offences and failing to stop for a police officer. According to Battlefords RCMP, at about 3 a.m. on April 28, 2020, they responded to a report of shots fired at a local hotel on the 1000 block of the Highway 16 bypass. Police say they believe the shooting at the hotel wasn’t a random incident and was tied to drug trafficking. They didn’t locate any suspects at the hotel but they immediately reviewed surveillance footage and determined that an occupant in a silver car shot towards a white SUV.
An hour later police were called to a report of a stabbing at a gas station on the 900 block of the Highway 16 bypass. When police arrived on scene they found the white SUV that was shot at earlier. The driver was arrested for impaired driving and police didn’t locate anyone who was stabbed.
Then two hours after that call, police got a report that a man in a silver car parked on Trudeau Street was waiving a firearm. RCMP were on scene in minutes and attempted to stop the car but the driver refused to stop and sped away. Police pursued the car for several blocks until the car lost control and drove over an embankment. Two men fled the vehicle on foot. Police arrested one right away and the other man was located with the help of an RCMP sniffer dog.
Judge Michelle Baldwin adjourned Gladue's matter to Jan. 6, 2022, in North Battleford Provincial Court.
