P.E.I. man gets 5.5 years in prison for drug offences
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CHARLOTTETOWN, P.E.I. — Being caught with giant quantities of cocaine, crystal methamphetamine and hydromorphone in a indifferent storage at his mom’s home has led to federal jail time for a P.E.I. man.
Jody Arthur Peterson, 48, was sentenced on June 12 in provincial courtroom in Charlottetown to five-and-a-half years in jail for 3 counts of drug possession for trafficking functions. Peterson pleaded responsible to the costs at a previous courtroom look. A feminine co-accused had her drug cost withdrawn by Federal Crown legal professional Jacob Zelman.
The info
Zelman advised the courtroom that in November 2022, Charlottetown police acquired data from a supply that Peterson was promoting cocaine, methamphetamine and hydromorphone on the Sleepy Hole Highway residence in Milton Station and started an investigation. On Dec. 3, 2022, at 1:30 a.m., police executed a search warrant and seized 2,124.5 grams of crystal methamphetamine, 2,811 methamphetamine tablets, 114 grams of cocaine and 1,075 hydromorphone tablets.
“The quantity of crystal methamphetamine and methamphetamine tablets seized – it is nearly arduous to wrap your head round,” stated Zelman. “The accused was supplying and negatively impacting the lives of a big variety of folks.”
“The accused was supplying and negatively impacting the lives of a big variety of folks.” – Jacob Zelman, Federal Crown attorne
Police additionally seized 922 grams of hashish, packaging provides, ammunition, a scale, three cell telephones and money. Peterson was arrested on the scene.
Peterson had a previous legal file, together with a four-month sentence in 2012 for drug possession for trafficking functions. Throughout a forfeiture listening to that adopted sentencing, Peterson’s mom testified that her son wasn’t dwelling on the residence on the time of the offences. She additionally stated that she did not know her son was concerned in drug trafficking.
The sentence
The five-and-a-half-year sentence was a joint suggestion from Zelman and defence lawyer Brendan Hubley.
Chief Decide Jeff Lantz accepted the joint suggestion. Peterson had nine-and-a-half months of enhanced credit score for time already spent in custody deducted from the sentence.
“We’re coping with a reasonably high-level operation right here,” stated Lantz. “It is not fairly often we see drug quantities at that degree.”
The choose additionally famous that moreover the impression and issues medication have on the customers, additionally they have an effect on members of the neighborhood when these customers are committing crimes to “feed their behavior.”
Along with the jail sentence, Peterson was additionally positioned on a lifetime weapons ban and ordered to offer a pattern of his DNA to authorities.
Terrence McEachern is a justice reporter with SaltWire in Prince Edward Island. He will be reached by e mail at [email protected] and will be adopted on Twitter @terry_mcn.
