Businessman faces more criminal charges
Bradley Noray, accused of breaching court orders and resisting arrest, was released after posting $10,000-cash deposit
A St. John’s businessman on trial for cocaine trafficking was charged with more criminal offences this week, but was released on bail Friday after agreeing to post a $10,000-cash deposit.
Bradley Noray attended provincial court by phone from the lockup, where he was being held on three charges of breaching his previous bail conditions as well as a charge of resisting arrest.
The Crown and Noray came to an agreement for his release on new conditions, including that he pay a $10,000-cash deposit and that a surety, with whom Noray must reside, promise another $500. Noray must stay inside his home between 7 p.m. and 9 a.m. unless accompanied by his surety or to attend work or medical or legal appointments, and he is banned from having a cellphone, tablet or other mobile telecommunications device. He is permitted to use the device of his surety, but only for medical or legal reasons.
Noray, 40, is scheduled to appear in court next on Sept. 29, for the continuation of his drug trafficking trial. He was arrested in January 2019, after police searched his business, Sin City Clothing, on Water Street.
Noray argued to have evidence obtained from that search excluded from his case on the grounds that there had been insufficient grounds for a judge to issue a warrant, that the warrant was invalid because it gave police the right to look for a firearm as well as drugs, and that the police officers conducted the search unreasonably because they turned off the shop’s surveillance system.
Judge David Orr disagreed, saying police had received information from five different informants related to Noray allegedly selling cocaine from the store and keeping a handgun there. Orr also pointed out Noray has prior convictions related to drug trafficking.
The province’s Court of Appeal recently struck down Noray’s appeal of his 3 1/2-year sentence for that crime, saying he had been given ample opportunity to get things in order for the appeal to proceed, but hadn’t done so.