SASKATOON, Sask. — David Glen McKenzie received a four-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to firearms and breach offences stemming from a traffic stop.
McKenzie was sentenced in Saskatoon Provincial Court on Nov. 4, following a joint submission from Crown prosecutor Cory Bliss and defence lawyer Evan Thompson. Judge Jane Wooten accepted the joint submission.
Before being sentenced, McKenzie told the court, “I’ve got no excuses. I fully admit and I take full responsibility for what I did, and I apologize for wasting the court’s time.”
According to facts presented in court, the offences occurred on May 25, 2025, at approximately 3:50 a.m., when Saskatoon police conducted a traffic stop at an intersection in Nutana on a vehicle whose license plate wasn’t registered to it. McKenzie was the driver.
Police determined McKenzie was in violation of a release order with a 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew. Officers also noticed an open bottle of alcohol in the vehicle and placed him under arrest.
When a passenger exited the vehicle, police noticed a loaded .22-calibre handgun in the left leg area of the vehicle, closest to the driver’s side, court heard. The firearm was later confirmed through ballistics testing to be a functioning restricted firearm. A CPIC (Canadian Police Information Centre) inquiry of the handgun’s serial number determined it had been stolen from a gun store in Saskatchewan in 2016.
At the time of the traffic stop, McKenzie was also prohibited from possessing firearms or weapons.
