They are now living in Qualicum Bay BC. Paul is living in a tent on the reservation. Shaunda is in a trailer nearby.
6 May 2016 at 11:36
Bill Noble's former partner has turned herself in. We note also that Noble has offered his brief $0.02 concerning the arrest:
How can a warrant be issued
for someone's arrest for failure to appear in court when they weren't
notified to appear in court to begin with?
Ms. Petrova did what amounts to an interview with Noble not long after the raid. We might upload that later. Co-accused in land claim case turns herself in to RCMP
By Caryn Ceolin, Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune
Tuesday, October 22, 2013
3:19:48 MDT PM The 39-year-old woman charged in relation to the
“Freemen-on-the-land” allegations surrounding the takeover of a
trapper’s cabin 80 km southeast of the city, turned herself into the
Grande Prairie RCMP detachment Monday afternoon.
Shaunda Petrova was wanted on an outstanding warrant, issued when she failed to appear in court on Oct. 16.
According to Brendan Cox with the provincial Justice and Solicitor
General’s office, Fish and Wildlife officers executed the warrant.
Petrova, who lives in Alberta, but is originally from Manitoba, was
later released and is scheduled to appear next in Grande Prairie
Provincial Court on Oct. 30.
Petrova is the co-accused in the land claims case filled against Paul Fiola. Petrova, who faces charges under the Public Lands Act, said via an
email sent to the DHT that she is not a Freeman-on-the-land, and had
every reason to believe that Fiola owned the land they occupied.
The allegations against Fiola, 40, were made public when forestry
workers in an oil-and-logging area in the vicinity of Misery Mountain
and Karr Creek were alerted earlier this month that a group claiming to
be Freemen was threatening trappers. The warning e-mail asked users of
the area to avoid the forest access road, explaining the group occupied a
cabin and had intentions to “defend it with all necessary force.”
Alberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development said earlier
it was aware that the group was attempting to claim the land as their
own.
ESRD sent an eviction notice in June, which was not complied with.
According to Petrova, while she nor Fiola left the land upon receiving
the order, she believed it was complied with.
“When we received the Order to Vacate…we explained to the men who
delivered it that (Fiola) had purchased the land,” Petrova said in the
e-mail.
“At the same time, the community of people who we are members of sent
a communication to the Reeve, Janis (Simpkins), and other government
officials such as the Premier of Alberta asking that your agents cease
and desist from trespassing on private land. They offered evidence of
ownership and requested a response regarding the matter if there were
any concerns. No one responded.
“…I believed in my heart the matter was resolved by the letter from
our community leaders and we continued to conduct ourselves as two
people who owned land and wanted to build a home on it.”
Petrova has been charged with occupying public land without
authorization from the director or an officer; willfully cut, damage,
destroy, or cause to be cut, damaged or destroyed, any forest growth
land without authorization under the Forest Act; and three counts of
failing to comply with an order from the director under section 47(1) of
the Public Lands Act, to vacate the Crown lands no later then noon.
Section 47(1) of the Public Lands Act states that a person who
occupies public land and is unauthorized to do so, is deemed to be a
trespasser and any improvements created by the person are the property
of the Crown.
“We cut down a few trees to provide shelter for ourselves on our
private property. Other people, companies and organizations plunder this
land regularly but you want to make me a criminal for building a home
in the forest? I’m sorry, but that just doesn’t make sense,” Petrova
said.
“What this comes down to is an issue of permits to be there and that is because of the confusion over who owns the land…
“I’m a social insurance number carrying citizen whose taxes are up to
date. I am not trying to skirt laws, nor do I believe I am above the
law. I do not drive without a license. I don’t have a claim of right,”
she stated.
Fiola, who faces criminal charges of uttering threats, using a
firearm in the commission of an offence, and possession of a firearm
while prohibited, currently remains in custody and is also scheduled to
appear in court on Oct. 30.
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25 October 2013 at 21:00
They are now living in Qualicum Bay BC. Paul is living in a tent on the reservation. Shaunda is in a trailer nearby.
6 May 2016 at 11:36