Charges dismissed in grocery store theft case

Jonathan Eugene Rowe leaves provincial court in St. John’s in this Telegram file photo.

Published on February 26, 2013; Published on February 26, 2013

Topics :: Torbay , St. John's , Portugal Cove Road

Days after he was arrested and jailed, charges involving a theft at a grocery store have been dropped against Jonathan Eugene Rowe.

When Rowe returned to provincial court this morning, prosecutor Kathleen O'Reilly told Judge Greg Brown that, because there was an unlikelihood of conviction, the Crown will not be pursuing the case.

Brown agreed to dismiss the charges.

Rowe was arrested Friday in connection with a case in which items were stolen from P.J.'s Groceteria in Torbay last summer.

Rowe is also facing charges in connection with the murder of a St. John's man, Nick Winsor, who was killed at a house on Portugal Cove Road in the capital city on July 9, 2011.

Philip Pynn and Lyndon Malcolm Butler are charged with murder and attempted murder in that case. Rowe is believed to have been an accomplice of Pynn, according to police.

Rowe is due back in Newfoundland Supreme Court on that case May 1.

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Eli

- February 26, 2013 at 17:02:34

And the reason the July 9 2011 case isn't in court yet is? Come on, either you have the evidence or you don't!

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