St. Catharines Downtown Association

A man who shattered more than 100 windows in St. Catharines and Thorold won't be allowed out past 8 p. m. for three years when he gets out of jail.

The curfew is included in a three-year probation term that Brian Paugh will have to serve when he is released from jail in two years.

The 30-year-old from Thorold was sentenced to two years less a day in jail for committing 18 counts of mischief under $5,000 and four counts of mischief over $5,000.

The jail time is in addition to 133 days of pretrial custody he served prior to the Dec. 5 sentencing in an Ontario Court of Justice in St. Catharines.

Paugh pleaded guilty earlier to the October 2007 vandalism spree in which windows were broken at the courthouse and library on Church Street and the police administration building at the corner of Church and James streets.

He also broke windows at the Pine Street Plaza in Thorold on May 12, 2008, and July 11, 2008.

Damage to dozens of windows was estimated at more than $160,000,...

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