Crown seeks long-term offender status for flasher

The Crown will be seeking an assessment that could have a Niagara man—found guilty this morning of two counts of indecent exposure and nine counts of breach of probation—declared a long-term offender.

Eric Davidson Brown faced 23 charges related to offences that occurred in North Bay between June 1 and Aug. 31, 2002. Some of the charges were either dropped or stayed.
Brown was acquited on six charges of breach of probation due to reasonable doubt that his identity had been established by witnesses.

Assistant Crown attorney Paul Larsh said he would seek long-term offender status for Brown because the public and children in particular “need to be protected from this type of behaviour.”

Larsh added Brown's offences weren't serious enough for him to be considered a dangerous offender.

Justice Gregory Rodgers will decide March 1 whether to grant the request for an assessment to get the long-term offender process going.

Long-term offenders can receive up to 10 years of police or community supervision.

Today’s proceedings were interrupted at one point when Brown fired his lawyer Yaro Mikitchook in court.

Brown also told Justice Rodgers to “f—k off.”

He caused a commotion as well while being taken to the court’s holding cells and was brought back in handcuffs.

This story will be updated within the next few hours.