A Canupawakpa Dakota Nation man was sentenced to six and a half years in prison on Thursday for an hours-long standoff with RCMP in 2023.

“This had an impact on all those that were involved, whether that’s (the complainant), the child, the community members or the officers that were called to respond,” Crown attorney Sarah Kok said in Brandon’s Court of King’s Bench.

“The small community of Canupawakpa was endangered.”

Adam Chaske, 34, pleaded guilty to the charges of reckless discharge of a firearm and unauthorized possession of a firearm on the morning his trial was scheduled to begin in May.

The Crown called the entire set of circumstances aggravating and outlined them to the court.

In November 2023, Chaske went to his partner’s apartment in Canupawakpa — a community roughly 70 kil

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