The man whose illegal bike ride across the Canadian border landed him in jail has plead guilty to three charges.Jack Essary was in Estevan Provincial Court Thursday for the latest in a series of court appearances since his arrest March 17 near Bromhead. The 41-year-old native of Missouri was stopped after Estevan RCMP received a complaint of a suspicious person riding a bicycle between the Bromhead and Torquay areas.After reaching the scene the RCMP members stopped Essary and eventually discovered he was carrying a .22 calibre rifle, a .22 calibre handgun and an axe. He was later charged with nine Criminal Code offences and five Customs Act offences relating to his possession of the weapons and illegal entry into the country.During Thursday's apperance, Essary, who was represented by lawyer Robert Grimsrud, plead guilty to failing to report imported goods, failure to report at a customs office and possessing a handgun without a licence. The remaining charges were dropped by the Crown, who was represented by Bill Burge.Provincial court judge Jeffery Kalmakoff sentenced Essary to one day in jail plus time served on all three counts. He will be released from the Regina Provincial Correctional Centre May 14 and then deported to the United States where he faces another year in prison in Missouri for a parole violation.For more on this story pick up the May 19 edition of The Estevan Mercury.
