A Hanna woman was given a 14-month conditional sentence after pleading guilty to a number of charges relating to the theft of wire from oil lease sites in the Three Hills and Hanna area.
Wanda Charlton appeared in the Alberta Court of Justice in Drumheller on Friday, September 22. She was sentenced for theft of a motor vehicle, break and enter, failure to comply with an undertaking and failure to attend court.
Charlton was facing charges stemming from an investigation by the Southern Alberta Crime Reduction Unit (SACRU) regarding thefts of copper wire from oil lease sites.
On December 16, 2021, members of SACRU observed a male and female enter an oil lease site east of Three Hills.
When the covert police vehicle approached the subjects fled back to their vehicle and left the lease site. Officers confirmed wire had been cut and removed. Later that afternoon the RCMP attempted a traffic stop with the suspects travelling on Highway 9 near Beiseker.
The female suspect, who was driving, pulled over, however when the officer approached, the suspect vehicle sped off.
The couple were arrested at a wire recycling business in Calgary the following day.
Charleton was given a 14-month conditional sentence, where two months would be under house arrest and two months would be with a curfew.
She is to have no contact with Tyree Ewing and is not to attend at oil and gas properties or metal recycling businesses.
