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Assaulter pleads guilty, gets jail sentence

Man pleads guilty to assault charges, receives jail sentence.

Days before he was set to stand trial for 25 charges, a now-convicted assaulter pled guilty to 11 of them in Ponoka provincial court on Friday, May 22 and was sentenced to almost two years in jail.

Daniel Archambault, 27, pled guilty to possession, multiple assaults, threats and engaging in threatening conduct.

The remaining charges have been dropped and the trial, scheduled for Tuesday May 26 and Wednesday May 27, did not proceed.

Judge W.A. Skinner sentenced Archambault to a total of 660 days in jail. Taking into account pre-sentencing time served, he had 477 days left as of May 22.

Archambault was also ordered to give his DNA and is under a lifetime firearm prohibition.

Going forward, he is to have no contact of any kind with the victim.

The victim, whose name cannot be released, was first assaulted on Dec. 24 2014, early in their relationship with Archambault.

The victim was driving her vehicle when Archambault began looking for his cocaine. He could not find it and accused her of stealing it. He began hitting her with gloves with solid plastic knuckle coverings.

The Crown Prosecutor R. Clark told the court Archambault threatened to break the woman’s fingers and burn her residence and car.

Archambault assault the woman three more times before Jan. 5 2015, each time while in her vehicle.

On Jan. 5 the woman contacted her mother. The two women attended the Ponoka RCMP detachment where the victim gave a statement.

That same day RCMP went to the residence where Archambault and the woman had been staying.

Aware of his impending arrest, Archambault tried to escape out of the back door but was caught near the residence.

Close to the location of his arrest, cocaine was found and inside the residence RCMP found a sword, the knife, starter pistol, the gloves, ammunition, marijuana and drug paraphernalia.

The court was informed during each of the incidences Archambault was under the influence of alcohol or drugs. He does not remember all the facts mentioned but does not dispute them.

“I’m very sorry for everything that happened and I feel bad for what I did,” said Archambault in court, via closed circuit television.