An early-morning hankering for food prompted Robert Bruce Baillie to stroll into 7-Eleven and walk right back out with unpaid hard-boiled eggs and a carton of chocolate milk.
Baillie, 50, then began eating the poached eggs and drinking the pilfered milk in the alley behind the convenience store at 10:30 a.m., before police eventually arrived on scene and arrested him.
The Rimby, Alta., native appeared by phone in Moose Jaw provincial court on Nov. 25, where he pleaded guilty to the Nov. 28, 2017 charge of theft under $5,000 and received a $100 fine that is to be paid in two months.
Judge Karl Basin informed Baillie that he had a new charge in court, where he is alleged to have uttered a death threat to his son on Oct. 11, 2019 in Moose Jaw. Baillie replied that his 17-year-old son’s allegation was “farfetched” and he would fight the charge. He added that he wouldn’t need legal advice for the trial since he would act as his own defence.
A court-appointed lawyer would be included in the Dec. 9 trial anyway, Basin noted, simply so he can cross-examine Baillie’s son. Further disclosure would be sent to Baillie before the start of the trial.
Moose Jaw provincial court next meets on Nov. 27.
