MEADOW LAKE – A masked man who threatened Beauval bar patrons with a firearm and a machete was sentenced to a bit of jail time.
Edwin Corrigal, 40, of Prince Albert, was given 90 days on a charge of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose and 75 days consecutive for possession of a prohibited weapon.
A trial was scheduled in Meadow Lake Provincial Court July 4 but the Crown and defence entered a joint submission.
Corrigal’s co-accused, 27-year-old Hubert Cardinal from Canoe Lake, was sentenced in May to 180 days each on two charges.
Corrigal and Cardinal were arrested by the Meadow Lake RCMP Crime Reduction Team and Beauval RCMP after they got a complaint on Dec. 23, 2022, that about a week prior, two masked men armed with a firearm and a machete had threatened people in the bar on Dec. 14, 2022.
RCMP officers launched an extensive investigation and identified the two suspects as Cardinal and Corrigal.
Meadow Lake RCMP CRT officers helped Beauval RCMP officers locate the two at a home on the 200 block of Primrose East on Canoe Lake Cree Nation. They found Corrigal in the backyard and he was arrested without incident.
Police say that Corrigal had a loaded, sawed-off shotgun, machete, and seven individual bags of crack cocaine hidden in a plastic egg container, seven grams of crack cocaine wrapped in tin foil, about 11 grams of marijuana, and cash. The sawed-off shotgun had a red bandana taped at the end with red duct tape. Police also found red bandanas, which is the colour of street gang Westside Outlawz.
Officers got a warrant to enter the house to search for Cardinal but he wasn’t there. Two days later they found him hiding under blankets in the back of a van in Beauval.
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