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Fraudster faces more charges.

Four new charges have been laid against Robert Patrick Dempsey for defrauding the TD Bank on Pleasant Street. The 37-year-old will be sentenced on Thursday, March 20, after pleading guilty to 12 other fraud charges. His lawyer, George Martin, said he knew nothing of the new ones.

He will make his plea on the new charges March 20 when he returns to court for sentencing.

Young woman accused of defrauding student loans and UNB.

Angela Marotta, 22, is charged with impersonation culminating in 10 counts of fraud against student loans, the University of New Brunswick, Rogers, Telus Mobility and various banks. Moratta is scheduled to make her plea March 31.

Two more charged in Timber Frames theft.

Benjamin Joseph Duplessie, 27, and Sarah Gallant of Cole Crescent appeared in court Monday to face charges involving the theft of power tools and battery chargers from Timber Frames Feb. 9. Leigh Peterson, 36, has also already been charged and remanded for involvement in this incident.

His bail was denied and he has yet to make an election.

No fine for elderly man who shot female deer.

Glenn Metherell Davidson, 71, pled guilty to shooting a female deer without a license and discharging a firearm too close to a dwelling house.

Davidson did not appear in court, but duty counsel submitted a letter to the court from him. In it, he said the shooting of a female deer was unintended, believing the deer to be male after observing "some branches to be antlers." He said he didn't realize his mistake until the deer fell to the ground and the "antlers stayed." Davidson wrote he is against shooting female deer, with or without a license. A limited number of licenses to kill female deer are issued every year, he wrote, and he he enters the draw just to keep others from getting the chance kill them. The charges were laid after the Department of Natural Resources received a call that someone was shooting too close to their home - within 400 metres. Davidson was taking care of a nearby cabin and wrote that he didn't know how close he was to other residences.

"I was ignorant, which makes me guilty," he wrote.

Finally he apologized to the court and the wardens "who do such a wonderful job." Judge Fred Ferguson said he thought for some time about this sentence.

Crown prosecutor Bill Morrissey asked for the minimum fine of $1,000, but Ferguson said he believed Davidson truly had good intentions to avoid shooting female deer and was remorseful for his mistake. He said it was rare to see such a heart-rending letter and discharged Davidson without a fine.