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He sure could tell some stories !!! Sorry to hear this - here is a newspaper article:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/1089843.html

Upper Sackville shooting suspect appears in court

By STEVE BRUCE and DAN ARSENAULT Staff Reporters
Wed. Nov 12 - 9:20 PM

This residence at 93 Orchard Dr. in Upper Sackville was the scene of an early morning shooting on Tuesday. (PETER PARSONS / Staff)

A 19-year-old man was arraigned Wednesday on a charge of attempted murder in the shooting of the son of two of Nova Scotia’s best-known marijuana activists.

Sergio Davidson Bowers of Alan Street in Lower Sackville made a brief appearance in Dartmouth provincial court.

Mr. Bowers is also charged with possessing cocaine and ecstasy for the purpose of trafficking, committing mischief and breaching a court order.

Associate Chief Judge Brian Gibson set the matter over until Friday morning at the request of duty lawyer Geoff Newton.

Mr. Newton said a conflict prevents his firm from representing Mr. Bowers but that another Dartmouth lawyer, Pat Atherton, was willing to take the case on a certificate from Nova Scotia Legal Aid.

Mr. Bowers was arrested early Tuesday morning after Mike Patriquen was shot at a house in Upper Sackville.

Mr. Patriquen, 25, was listed as being in serious condition at the Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre before his family instructed the Halifax hospital to stop giving information to the media.

He is the son of Michael Patriquen, the founder of the provincial Marijuana party, which is no longer active, and Melanie Stephen. The couple are divorced.

The shooting occurred at 93 Orchard Dr. in Upper Sackville. Ms. Stephen is the listed owner of the house and two other properties on the street, but neighbours said she hasn’t lived there recently.

RCMP spokesman Cpl. Joe Taplin said police received a 911 call at 3:40 a.m. from Orchard Drive, off Sackville Drive.

"The RCMP arrived on scene early and they started gathering information right away," he said. "They determined who the suspect was."

Cpl. Taplin wouldn’t say how many people were at the brown house, which is set back about 30 metres from the street among trees. He also wouldn’t say where the bullet hit the victim.

Police had their lights flashing as they trailed the suspect to Candlewood Court in Lower Sackville, about five kilometres away. The suspect jumped from his still-moving vehicle and ran off as the vehicle went onto the lawn at 4 Candlewood Ct.

The RCMP called Halifax Regional Police to help them create a perimeter to block escape routes from the neighbourhood and eventually they stopped a car carrying the suspect and two females.

"He was arrested there without incident along with two other females that were in the vehicle as well," Cpl. Taplin said.

The females were questioned and released, he said.

In 2003, Mike Patriquen and his mother, who was then Melanie Patriquen, ran in the provincial election for the Marijuana party but both finished a distant last in their respective ridings. He was a Saint Mary’s University commerce student at the time and said he smoked "two or three" grams of marijuana every day.

His father, Michael Patriquen, was serving a six-year prison sentence at the time after pleading guilty to possessing and trafficking marijuana in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland.

Ms. Stephen was convicted in February of money laundering and possessing proceeds of crime from the same growing operation. She was sentenced in April to one day behind bars and an 18-month conditional sentence in the community.

The former couple also have a teenage daughter.

A girl who looked to be a teenager arrived at the Orchard Drive house with a young woman late Tuesday afternoon and yelled at someone on the property for a few minutes. She then walked away and yelled and cried for several minutes before returning to the car she arrived in.

Police investigators went to the car and spoke with both females for a short time.

Neighbours said there appeared to be a late-night party at the Orchard Drive house Monday, which wasn’t unusual. They said the house has frequent visitors but isn’t that noisy. The residents are friendly and wave to neighbours, they said.

The Chronicle Herald reached Ms. Stephen by phone at about 3:30 p.m. Tuesday but she was unaware of the shooting and was very upset by the news.

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