MONCTON, N.B. - Two women have been handed suspended sentences and placed on probation after pleading guilty to intimidation related to an incident involving media covering shale gas protests in New Brunswick last year.
Thirty-seven-year-old Abby Ward and 35-year-old Angel Mae Wilcox of the Elsipogtog First Nation were sentenced in Moncton provincial court after they each pleaded guilty to intimidation earlier this year.
They were charged following an incident on Oct. 19, 2013, in Rexton, N.B., where journalists from three television networks were prevented from taking video footage of several RCMP vehicles destroyed by fire during a shale gas protest.
The reporters were told to leave the area and leave their vehicles and equipment behind.
Ward and Wilcox were each handed a two-year suspended sentence, with two years of probation.
A third person, 25-year-old Tyson Peters also from Elsipogtog First Nation, pleaded guilty to a charge of intimidation in September and will be sentenced on Jan. 15.
