TRURO - A former Truro resident involved in a violent home invasion in 2005 will have to live at a halfway house to serve the rest of his sentence, says a National Parole Board report.
The board imposed special conditions to Jerome John Morton's statutory release, including residency, abstaining from drugs, avoiding people known to be involved in criminal activity, including the drug sub-culture, and avoiding the victims of the offence.
Despite completing programs while incarcerated, the board noted he had incurred numerous charges, including 13 serious ones.
"You have been involved in 17 incidents including you being linked to an assault on another offender," says the board's June 7 report.
"Most recently, a hand-written note was found in your cell detailing your plans for your upcoming statutory release. These plans included procuring weapons, engaging in criminal activity and associating with known criminals."
Morton was 18 when he was sentenced to six years and one month in prison for break and enter, use of a firearm while committing an offence, aggravated assault, assault with a weapon as well as drug possession charges. Court heard he was one of several people who barged into a trailer in the Beaver Brook area on Nov. 5, 2005.
Two victims were subject to two mock executions before the group left the trailer.
Morton was one of two men who placed a shotgun to one of the victim's head and pulled the trigger, but the gun did not go off.
"You considered your actions to have been in retaliation," the parole board report says. "Such thinking is distorted and reflective of criminal values and attitudes supportive of violence."
Morton received day parole in July 2007 but was only in the community for a week before he failed to return to a halfway house. He was unlawfully at large for three weeks.
Morton's sentence is set to end in January 2012.
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