Update: Sagmoen sentenced to ‘time served’ after being found guilty on three charges

Update 1:45 p.m.

A man who approached a sex trade worker with a gun near Falkland two years ago, has been sentenced to time served plus 36 months of probation.

Curtis Sagmoen, 39, was found guilty in B.C. Supreme Court in Vernon Friday of three charges: disguising his face with intent to commit an offence, for using a firearm while committing an indictable offence, and for possession of a controlled substance.

He was found not guilty of two other offences: uttering threats and intentionally discharging a firearm.

The Crown and defence put forward a joint sentencing submission of two years less a day which was accepted by Justice Alison Beames.

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That also takes into account credit of three years and three months of time already served waiting for trial.

“I wish you the best of luck in fully rehabilitating yourself and return to what appears to be your life sometime before August 2017 in any event of being a contributing member of society,” Justice Alison Beams said to Sagmoen in passing sentence.

Sagmoen, who had no previous criminal record, will also be banned from making contact with sex workers, and will have to live on his parents’ property.

Sagmoen faces more legal issues early in the new year.

The B.C Prosecution Service says his trial on one count of assault causing bodily harm and one count of assault is scheduled for trial in Vernon on Feb. 10, 2020.

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Update 12:25 p.m.

The Crown and defence have put forward a joint submission for a sentence of one year, 11 months and 29 days (two years less a day) for Curtis Sagmoen, followed by three years of probation.

“They said they wanted to keep the sentence under two years so that Sagmoen could receive the maximum allowable time for probation,” said Vernon Matters reporter Tiffany Goodwein at the Vernon Law Courts.

The lawyers are also proposing he have no contact whatsoever with sex trade workers as part of his probation conditions, and that he is to live on his parents’ property.

Sentences of less than two years are served in provincial prisons, and in federal facilities for over two years.

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Original story

Curtis Sagmoen has been found guilty on three of the five charges he was facing in Vernon Supreme Court.

Justice Alison Beames found Sagmoen guilty on count one which is disguising his face with intent to commit an offence, and on count three, for using a firearm while committing an indictable offence.

The 39-year-old was found not guilty on count two which was intentionally discharging a firearm, and on count four, for uttering threats.

Sagmoen was also convicted on count five for possession of a controlled substance which his lawyer says was a methamphetamine.

Sentencing is taking place today.

The charges were connected to an incident involving a sex trade worker on a rural property near Falkland in August 2017.