A man was sentenced to 45 days after pleading guilty to a number of charges including theft, obstructing a police officer, possession of drugs and possession of stolen property.
Scott Klatt, 37, appeared in provincial court in Drumheller on Friday, March 17 to make his pleas.
On October 5, 2022, Klatt was captured on camera stealing a compressor from a property in Hanna.
The court also heard how on January 6, 2022 Drumheller RCMP were investigating a stolen vehicle and withdrawals taken from an account using a stolen debit card. The vehicle was located at an address on Hunts Crescent.
Police gained entry to the home and Klatt provided a false name. Police also located $250 and a debit card as well as alcohol, fentanyl and methamphetamine. The vehicle and debit card was taken from a residence in Saskatchewan from a person Klatt was employed by.
Klatt also pleaded to a number of breaches.
The crown and defence agreed on a joint submission of 45 days in custody, followed by 12 months of probation. The $250 recovered will be returned to the victim, with a further restitution order of $550.
A further $350 of restitution was ordered for the stolen compressor.
Klatt has been in custody since the arrest in January and credit for his pretrial custody exceeds the totality of his sentence.

Hearing tribunals for two healthcare workers who are accused to have failed to provide adequate care to an Indigenous woman at the Hanna Health Centre in December 2020 have been closed to the public.
The disciplinary hearings, which are being overseen by the College of Registered Nurses of Alberta (CRNA), were scheduled to be held virtually between March 22 and 24; the Mail received notice the hearings would be closed to the public on Monday, March 20.
“A written decision of the Hearing Tribunal, including the reasoning for the closure, will be made public when it is complete,” CRNA Hearings Director Amy Payne stated in the notice.
The hearings are in relation to the death of Lillian Vanasse at the Hanna Health Centre in December 2020.
Ms. Vanasse, who was of Ojibway Indigenous descent, was transported to the Hanna Health Centre by ambulance on the evening of Christmas Day 2020.
It is alleged the healthcare workers “failed to demonstrate adequate judgment” and “adequate professionalism” while caring for Ms. Vanasse, and “contributed clinical bias” through discussions with the attending physician regarding a previous emergency room visit by Ms. Vanasse.
This is alleged to have resulted in a lack of adequate care for Ms. Vanasse, which ultimately led to her death in the early morning hours of December 26, 2020.
Ms. Vanasse’s widower, Cory Ashley, filed a complaint against the two healthcare workers with CRNA in the days following his wife’s death.
Hearing tribunals were originally scheduled for September 2022, but were rescheduled less than two weeks before they were to begin, and were rescheduled until March 2023.
There is no timeline on when the written decision will be issued, though this information will be available to the public and posted to the CRNA website.