A person has been charged with forcible confinement after Waterloo Regional Police have been referred to as to research a disturbance that occurred contained in the Kitchener courthouse.
James Ziegler, 72, was charged in relation to the incident that’s alleged to have taken place April 19.
There’s a magistrate with the identical identify within the Ontario Court docket of Justice, West Area.
A spokesperson for the Ontario Court docket of Justice confirmed that Ziegler is presently unassigned from judicial duties.
In accordance with the Ontario Court docket of Justice web site, Justices of the Peace have jurisdiction on the subject of provincial offenses, bail hearings, and search warrants.
The identify of the sufferer, who isn’t figuring out, additionally matches that of one other magistrate.
Regional Police say on April 22, officers responded to a reported incident that had occurred in mid-April on the Ontario Court docket of Justice on Frederick Road in Kitchener.
Court docket paperwork record a lot of circumstances for Ziegler together with that he should not talk instantly or not directly with the sufferer, not go inside 100 metres of wherever the sufferer could also be, and can’t attend the courthouse apart from his personal case.
Ziegler was permitted one pre-approved go to to his workplace on the courthouse to acquire private belongings, within the presence of a Waterloo Regional Police officer.
Ziegler’s case was briefly addressed in court docket on Could 16. It’s scheduled to return on June 6.
