A chronic Canadian border jumper has admitted to his latest failed attempt to enter the country and drawn the ire of a Manitoba judge for his behaviour during the process.
Staeton Kevin Grant, 40, appeared in court Wednesday to plead guilty to sneaking across the Manitoba-North Dakota border on a bicycle in April.
But his expected sentencing hearing came to a sudden halt when Grant repeatedly interrupted the process.
He refused to wear headphones so he could hear the legal submissions while appearing on video link from Headingley jail.
Then he started banging on the microphone.
That's when Judge Lynn Stannard pulled the plug, ordering Grant to remain in custody and vowing to have sheriff's officers personally bring him into court when the sentencing continues, likely next month.
"Tell him to grow up," Stan-nard told Grant's lawyer. "I've got enough matters where people want to deal with their matters and aren't acting like eight-year-olds."
Grant was captured in April by officers from the sa国际传媒 Border Services Agency, who found him hiding in the attic of the side-by-side Winnipeg home where his girlfriend and daughter live.
He will once again be deported once his legal matters are resolved and he completes serving any sentence he is given.
Grant has an extensive history with the Canadian justice system.
He arrived from Jamaica in 1985 as a landed immigrant but was deported in 1993 after being convicted of a vicious baseball bat attack on another man.
Grant tried to enter the country in 1996, 1998 and 2006 - the latter when he posed as his brother-in-law while trying to board a flight in Jamaica, court was told. He was turned away each time.
Grant did get into Winnipeg in 2010 but was promptly arrested and detained.
His girlfriend was caught posing as an immigration officer and faxed a phoney letter to jail officials saying the charges against Grant had been dropped.
