Plea date set for accused charged in fatal car crash

SYDNEY — A Glace Bay man charged in connection with the death of another man has been released from custody on conditions.

Jonathan Daniel Marangoni, 29, of May Street is charged with criminal negligence causing death and dangerous driving causing death.

The offences are alleged to have occurred in Sydney in the early morning hours of July 6.

The victim, John James King, 43, of Villa Drive, in Little Bras d'or, was one of four people in the vehicle that crashed into a home on the corner of George Street and Byng Avenue.

The other occupants were taken to hospital with what was described as non-lifethreatening injuries.

Cape Breton Regional Police have asked the Nova Scotia Serious Incident Response Team (SIRT) to investigate the case as regional officers had attempted to stop the vehicle prior to the crash.

The response team investigates the actions of police in cases where there was serious injury or death.

Among the conditions of his release, Marangoni is to live at an address in Port Morien and is to have no contact with the two other individuals who were in the vehicle at the time of the crash. He is to abstain from alcohol and drugs not prescribed him and is not to be in the front seat of any vehicle.

Marangoni is also to remain under a 24/7 house arrest with exceptions that include medical and legal appointments.

He is now scheduled to enter pleas to the charges Aug. 6.