The Weekly Albertan

A man involved in a car crash that killed 31-year-old Colleen Cappo, faces eight criminal charges for crashing the stolen vehicle.

A police chase ensued before the crash which happened early morning on Feb. 16. The chase went on for more than 20 blocks before the driver lost control and hit a tree.

Jason Charles Francis, 35, is being charged with criminal flight causing death, criminal flight causing bodily harm, dangerous driving causing death, dangerous driving causing bodily harm, impaired driving causing death, impaired driving causing bodily harm, driving while disqualified and possession of a prohibited weapon.

A man who torched his ex-girlfriends SUV in March pleaded guilty to five charges yesterday.

Anthony Zaozirny, 42, decided in a drunken state to set Bernadette Andrejiw’s after seeing her pull up to her house and go in.

Zaozirny grabbed a drill cable from his truck and smashed a hole in the SUV’s windshield. He poured about five litres of gasoline, from a jerry can in his truck, into the SUV and tossed a lit match in.

One of the officers in the two police cruisers heading to the scene saw Zaozirny, in a pickup truck, make an unsafe turn in front of them before crashing into a tree.

Zaozirny had a blood-alcohol level of .13. After an officer discovered the half-empty gas can, he gave a full confession.

He pleaded guilty to arson, impaired driving, failing to comply with an undertaking and two counts of uttering threats to cause death or bodily harm.

A sentencing hearing is scheduled for March 12 and a psychiatric assessment, and pre-sentence report were ordered.