Two RCMP vehicles are parked near the Duchess on Tranquille on May 15, 2019, after responding to a report of a stabbing.

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Jennifer Manuel will spend one day in jail for possessing a silencer that was found in an investigation spurred by a stabbing at the Northbridge Hotel in Kamloops in 2019.

Manuel, 38, appeared in Kamloops Supreme Court on Monday afternoon where she faced multiple charges related to firearms and drug possession.

"Ms. Manuel has struggled in her life, but in the last while she has done miraculously well," defence lawyer Jeremy Jensen said in court Nov. 1.

After spending time at a treatment centre and seeing psychiatrists, Jensen said Manuel is a "different person" compared to when he first started working with her.

She had been on "strict conditions" while on bail since Dec. 17, 2019. Jensen said she had breached those conditions once and spent 68 days in jail.

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Manuel was one of four people arrested following a stabbing at the Northbridge Hotel on May 15, 2019, in an incident Kamloops RCMP described as related to the local drug trade.

When they arrived at the hotel to reports of a stabbing, police found a 34-year-old Prince George man bleeding profusely before he was transported to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Police believed the attack to be targeted.

Witnesses and surveillance footage led police to a black Chevrolet Avalanche which was later found at a home on Linden Avenue Manuel was associated with.

When officers arrived at the house, they found what they believed to be blood around the truck and on the driveway, the court heard from Crown prosecutor Chris Balison.

With a search warrant, police searched the home and eventually found a silencer in a filing cabinet in one of the bedrooms.

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The silencer, which is prohibited under Canadian firearms laws, was not attached to a gun, but there was a firearm elsewhere in the bedroom and Manuel's fingerprints were later found on the silencer, the court heard from Balison.

Justice Sheri Donegan handed the sentence of one day jail time in line with a joint submission from Crown and defence.

She faced at least seven other charges in Supreme Court related to the May 2019 investigation, but those charges were stayed, partly because the admissibility of evidence had been previously challenged.

Manuel was not facing charges related to the stabbing on Nov. 1.

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The court heard that Manuel had also been sentenced to one day in jail and a $250 fine related to another firearm charge in a separate hearing that day.

She was charged for possessing a firearm without a licence and/or registration, which was related to a shooting at the Hospitality Inn on Oct. 16, 2020.

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