Charlottetown man gets jail for cocaine dealing
A Charlottetown man who was sitting in his house lounge when police entered with a search warrant has been sentenced for possession of cocaine for the aim of trafficking.
Chief Decide Jeff Lantz discovered the accused, Kenneth Francis Perry, 57, responsible of the cost on April 13 in provincial court docket in Charlottetown. Perry was sentenced in court docket the identical day after being discovered responsible.
Perry pleaded not responsible to the cost and had a trial March 24-25. He was self-represented at trial and at sentencing.
Lantz recounted the proof introduced on the trial.
On Nov. 3, Perry was sitting in his lounge in his house in Charlottetown with one other man when police entered his house to execute a drug search warrant at round 6 p.m.
Contained in the residence, police seized roughly 12 grams of cocaine. Two of the grams of cocaine was divided into 4, 0.5-gram luggage and located in Perry’s pants pocket. Two different luggage containing 3.19 grams and 6.97 grams of cocaine had been discovered hidden in Perry’s mattress.
Police additionally seized objects on Perry’s lounge desk – 60 caffeine drugs, digital scales with cocaine residue, drug paraphernalia (spoons and a pipe), a mobile phone, lighters, a kitchen knife, baking soda, and extra plastic luggage.
At trial, an officer testified that given the general quantity of cocaine seized, the best way it was divided into 0.5-gram luggage and the opposite objects discovered within the house, Perry was an “unsophisticated street-level vendor.”
“unsophisticated street-level vendor.”
Perry unsuccessfully argued in court docket that the cocaine was for private use.
Lantz accepted federal Crown legal professional Chee Ng’s advice and sentenced Perry to 24 months in jail, 18 months of probation and a 15-year weapons ban. Perry didn’t provide a advice on sentencing. He maintained that he didn’t promote any medicine and didn’t perceive how he was charged with trafficking within the first place. Perry stated he was wanting ahead to getting the matter over with so he may get out of jail and go to his mom, who’s coping with a severe well being challenge.
Lantz gave Perry 10 months’ credit score for time already served in custody because the Nov. 3 arrest, leaving 14 months on the jail sentence.
Terrence McEachern is a justice reporter with SaltWire Community in Charlottetown. [email protected] @PEIGuardian
