Instead of going on trial for mischief under $5,000 and assault in Prince George Provincial Court, a 32-year-old man agreed May 20 to a peace bond and to pay a woman for the smartphone he wrecked.
Bowdean George Saunders had been charged with mischief under $5,000 and assault for an Oct. 13, 2024 incident.
A Prince George RCMP officer arrested an intoxicated Saunders and found a distraught woman with her smartphone, which had been shattered, bent in an angle and no longer operable.
Saunders did not plead guilty and has no criminal record. He agreed to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for the next year.
“I do encourage you to perhaps get some help, you have a problem with alcohol,” Judge Martin Nadon said to Saunders. “Because it's one of those things that gives me more work than I care to count and, certainly, I doubt that, without alcohol, that this would have been an issue.”
Nadon said the peace bond would include a $500 pledge in case of breach. He also required Saunders to pay $1,100 restitution via the court clerk to the victim, for the replacement value of the phone.
The Crown stayed the assault charge.
