Truro man accused of stealing cat
A Truro man will appear in court May 3 to face a charge of attempting to steal a cat.
Stephen Gregory Tynes, 32, of King Street, Truro, was charged Wednesday after Truro Police responded to a report of someone trying to take a cat from an Exhibition Street property.
Tynes is also charged with breach of probation stemming from weapons-related charges.
Last October he received a conditional discharge and a year’s probation after pleading guilty to having an overcapacity ammunition magazine.
That charge resulted from an arrest in August 2015 after the former Dalhousie University student’s psychiatrist informed police she felt people at the Halifax university — including the daughter of the associate dean of the medical school — were in danger.
The threats-related charges were later dropped and a sixmonth peace bond was imposed that prohibited Tynes from possessing weapons and required him to stay at least 50 metres away from the Dalhousie official and her daughter.
In May 2016, a sexual assault charge against Tynes was referred to a Dartmouth mental health court. That charge dated to May 2013.
Tynes was charged with animal cruelty in 2014 after witnesses told police they saw a man coax a cat off a doorstep on Fairview Drive in Truro. The witnesses said he picked the cat up by its hind legs, swung it above his head and then slammed it into the ground.
The Crown later withdrew the charge after determining there was unlikely to be a conviction in the case because of conflicting witness information.