Mountie’s gun charge postponed till Dec. 20
Date: Dec 8, 2006 10:23 AM
PUBLICATION: The Chronicle-Herald
DATE: 2006.12.08
SECTION: NovaScotia
PAGE: B5
BYLINE: Beverley Ware South Shore Bureau
WORD COUNT: 297

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Mountie’s gun charge postponed till Dec. 20

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The case of a Lunenburg County Mountie charged with careless use of her
semi-automatic pistol will go back before a Bridgewater judge in two
weeks.

Const. Adree Mohammed Zahara, 40, of Chester Grant Road was arrested
Oct. 17 and spent the night in police custody.

She was released on a recognizance the next day pending her appearance
Wednesday in Bridgewater provincial court.

The officer’s lawyer, David Bright, told Judge Anne Crawford he has
talked with prosecutor Chris Nicholson, who has been brought in from
Halifax to handle the case. Mr. Bright said they may be able to resolve
the case and are bringing it back before the judge Dec. 20. In the
meantime, Const. Zahara must continue to abide by the terms of the
undertaking she signed when she was released in October, which
prohibited her from having any contact with Chuck Simm, an RCMP officer
with the Chester detachment, and Graham Cooke, a Mountie with the
Lilydale detachment, and ordered her to stay away from their homes.

The document has been amended to allow her to have contact with Const.
Cooke.

Other conditions of her release are to notify Staff Sgt. Steve Mills of
any change in her address or employment, to surrender her firearm to the
RCMP and not to use alcohol or illegal drugs.

When she signed the undertaking, Const. Zahara also promised not to
enter her home until the RCMP had searched it and to live with Dr.
Jolene Jarvis in East River.

RCMP spokesman Sgt. Frank Skidmore said that in October, several shots
from a police pistol blasted into a wall of Const. Zahara’s home. He
said the gun was never pointed at anyone and no one was hurt.

Sgt. Skidmore did not name Const. Zahara at the time because she had not
been charged, but he did say the matter involved a female officer and a
male officer who are former partners.(

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