The man at the centre of last July's pepper-spraying incident on Sechelt Band Lands received the sentence requested by his defence lawyer in Sechelt provincial court on Wednesday.
Troy Mayers was fined $113 for failing to stop his pickup truck when Const. Glen Martin's police cruiser was parked across the road with lights flashing on Sinku Drive last July 2. Moments after, Mayers also defied arrest from Martin, an action that will cost him an additional $300.
"By pulling your arm away when told you're under arrest, a fine of $300 should send the message that this was not OK," said Justice Anne E. Rounthwaite, who did take into account Mayers two previous convictions (for causing a disturbance and uttering a threat) in her sentencing.
Mayers, the boys soccer coach who was at the time of the offences leading a procession of vehicles "going honking" to celebrate a victorious homecoming from a soccer tournament, was also sentenced to a day in jail for resisting arrest from Cpl. Max Fossum. However, the day Mayers spent in jail after being pepper-sprayed will count as time already served, Rounthwaite said.
Crown counsel Trevor Cockfield had asked Roun-thwaite for a global fine (covering all three offences) of $750 to $1,000."In terms of what Mr. Mayers did, he received an appropriate sentence," said Cockfield. "He can't be blamed for what others did."
