Category: Sydney

14-year-old boy from the Valley has been charged with possessing and distributing child pornography. RCMP say Facebook reported to police that the teen from Kingston, NS was sharing the image of a minor on the social networking site. Police say the image was not a known victim and that the image had come up elsewhere on the internet in other investigations. The 14-year-old was arrested at his home on Thursday and released following a court appearance in Kentville. He will return to court on April 6th.

The Governor General’s office says a retired soldier who was court-martialled for wearing Afghanistan and Somalia medals and parachute wings he wasn’t entitled to at a Remembrance Day ceremony has lost his membership in the Order of Military Merit. Richard Fancy was a member of the regular forces between 1984 and 2010, when he joined the reserves with the Halifax Rifles. He became a master warrant officer in the regiment and received the Order of Military Merit in October 2014, a month before the Remembrance Day incident in Halifax. In May 2016, Fancy pleaded guilty at a court martial to three counts of conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline and was reduced in rank to warrant officer and fined $300.