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Current Affairs 2007 - Police (105 items)
| Oct 3, 2007 | BC: US War Deserter Is Held After Pot Arrest In Nelson NELSON - A U.S. army deserter has been arrested in Nelson.
Robin Long, 24, was arrested by police on a countrywide warrant on Monday.
Long, who is from Ontario, was in Nelson visiting friends and staying with fellow war resisters.
But Nelson police Chief Dan Maluta said Long was arrested as a result of regular police work, not because they were targeting war resisters.
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| Sep 30, 2007 | 'Party's Over' For Druggies: Health Minister OTTAWA -- Health Minister Tony Clement will announce the Conservative government's anti-drug strategy this week with a stark warning: "The party's over" for illicit drug users. "In the next few days, we're going to be back in the business of an anti-drug strategy," Clement said. "In that sense, the party's over."
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| Sep 17, 2007 | AG Increases Use of Forfeiture Powers to Seize Assets The Ministry of the Attorney General has increased its use of sweeping provincial civil forfeiture powers in the past year to seize assets, including people's homes, even if criminal proceedings have been stayed or withdrawn because of Charter violations. ...A report issued recently by the attorney general's office stated that $3.6 million in property has been seized in the past four years in 170 proceedings. Nearly $1 million has been distributed to crime victims and more than $900,000 transferred to municipal police forces.
[More US-style war on civil liberties] |
| Sep 14, 2007 | NS: Marijuana Court Case Turns Into Constitutional Concern However, Ricky Logan Simpson, 57, told the jury hearing his Nova Scotia Supreme Court trial on three drug charges that he should not be considered a criminal because the laws forbidding the possession, growing and distribution of marijuana are unconstitutional.
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| Sep 12, 2007 | Senior Officer Charged In Arrest, Strip Search EDMONTON - A city police officer has been charged with unlawful exercise of authority for arresting and strip searching the son of lawyer Tom Engel after evidence of the alleged crime -- a marijuana cigarette -- was thrown away.
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| Sep 4, 2007 | BC: Sea King Helps Nab Grow Operations The Canadian Forces participation in the annual RCMP marijuana-eradication program - called Operation SABOT within the military - involves the provision of CF helicopters as observation platforms and transportation for RCMP teams hunting for grow sites.
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| Sep 2, 2007 | Retired Prescott Police Officer Faces Drug-Trafficking A retired officer with the Prescott police force was one of nine people charged this week in connection with drug trafficking in the border town.
Bruce Perrin, 58, was arrested on Aug. 29. He is the second current or former police officer from the Seaway Valley to face drug charges this year.
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| Aug 31, 2007 | ON: OPP Says RIDE Check At Hempfest Was Legitimate Ontario Provincial Police say an impaired driving checkpoint outside Hempfest wasn't a ploy to search festival-goers for pot, and deny charges by organizers of the annual cannabis festival that police attempted to drive off attendees. ...Rob Waddell, organizer of Hempfest, pointed out this week that no impaired driving charges were laid, for drugs or alcohol.
He also charged OPP went above and beyond their normal practice at RIDE checks by questioning passengers, checking for documentation and doing vehicle safety checks.
Some who attended Hempfest described a military-style roadblock a short distance from the event, manned by as many as 20 police officers.
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| Aug 31, 2007 | BC: Marijuana Busts Set a Record Team Finds 19,000 Plants at 350 Sites in Nine-Day Campaign
Island police say they've destroyed the largest amount of marijuana since they started a summer eradication program eight years ago.
A combined team of RCMP, municipal police and Canadian Forces personnel found more than 19,000 plants at 350 sites during a nine-day campaign that ended this week.
[Wow, the world is safer now ] |
| Aug 27, 2007 | ON: 32 Drug Charges at Hempfest Ontario Provincial Police laid 32 drug charges and four weapons charges over the weekend during a RIDE stop set up during Hempfest 2007. OPP say most of the drug charges were for possession of marijuana.
[Crushing the culture] |
| Aug 25, 2007 | ON: Police Will Be Out in Force at Hempfes The Cannabis Festival Runs Through Sunday in Ophir
A police traffic checkpoint aims to smoke out any possible problems during Hempfest.
The ninth annual cannabis festival runs through Sunday in Ophir about 30 kilometres north of Bruce Mines.
Ontario Provincial Police started checking vehicles on Poplar Dale Road Thursday afternoon. Motorists will be stopped through the weekend.
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| Aug 24, 2007 | ON: Church Leaders Go To Court Over Confiscated Pot The spiritual leaders of a church that uses marijuana as its sacrament are seeking a court order for the return of several pounds of pot and other items seized from their Barton Street headquarters during an RCMP raid.
Church of the Universe ministers Walter Tucker, 74, and Michael Baldasaro, 58, were charged with possession of marijuana for the purpose of trafficking after the Mounties executed a search warrant on May 15, 2000.
The raid came after a sting operation in which undercover police officers pretended to join the church and began to buy the sacrament.
However, all charges against the pair were ultimately withdrawn by a federal drug prosecutor on Dec. 15, 2005.
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| Aug 11, 2007 | Pot Grower: Cops' Crop Price Is Way Too High A local pot grower thinks the RCMP was high as a kite in assessing the value of some weed they seized in a recent drug bust in Stewiacke.
Comments made by police in a recent newspaper article indicating that 170 plants taken in a late-July operation had a value of $200,000 are "craziness," according to the grower, who contacted The Chronicle Herald to say there isn't that much money in marijuana.
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| Aug 10, 2007 | ON: Marijuana Mayhem Whether it's a new townhouse development, a run-down apartment complex or a luxury home in an up-scale neighbourhood, marijuana growing laboratories, ( or marijuana grow labs, as they've come to be called ), continue to appear at an alarming rate in Peel. ...Meanwhile, unlike marijuana labs, methamphetamine ( meth ) labs are new to Peel Police, with the first one ever in the Region being discovered in Mississauga last summer. However, experts believe there are more here.
[They only have to look to the US to see that more meth labs appear when it becomes difficult to grow cannabis gardens. People will be longing for the days when they were only living beside plants.] |
| Aug 10, 2007 | BC: Pot Not a Police Priority, Deputy Chief Testifies at Trial Deputy Chief Bill Naughton said the society's Cormorant Street office of the Vancouver Island Compassion Society has not generated any complaints, adding marijuana ranks behind drugs like cocaine, methamphetamine and heroin in terms of Victoria police priorities. ....Also testifying yesterday in Victoria was Senator Pierre Claude Nolin, who chaired the Senate Special Committee on Illegal Drugs, which called in 2002 for the legalization of marijuana in Canada.
Nolin told the court the regulations, as they currently exist, are an obstacle to Canadians who want access to medical marijuana.
He said the rules ask doctors to be "gatekeepers" for access to legal marijuana. It's a role doctors don't want, and so Canadians are being denied access to a medical product.
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| Jul 31, 2007 | Evansburg Man Plans To Sue Police A man from Evansburg is suing the RCMP for seizing marijuana plants he says he was growing for medicinal purposes. Two years ago, Steve Chorney received a licence under the federal medical-marijuana program to grow a limited number of plants to manage chronic pain in his legs, which has prevented him from working since 1996.
At about 10 a.m. on July 23, Chorney said three RCMP members arrived at his house in three separate vehicles, made a bee-line for the plants and started pulling them out of the ground.
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| Jul 24, 2007 | AB: RCMP Seize Medical Pot User's Plants An Evansburg man who takes pot for his pain fears he's about to get sicker after police seized his weed yesterday. ..."According to Health Canada, there is no licence in place for this individual," said Cpl. James House of the Evansburg RCMP.
Chorney, though, said he was in the midst of getting his licence renewed in order to move his plants outdoors.
[Many legal exemptees have stated that the police subject them to raids and prosecution after the government fails to provide them with timely protection. How can police cause so much harm to the sick and still sleep at night?] |
| Jul 23, 2007 | You're Being Watched How many of you adults were affected by the oldest brother or sister in the family?... For you teens, think about your little brother or sister before you make a mistake they won't soon forget, say no to drugs and alcohol.
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| Jul 13, 2007 | The Police Aren't Experts On Drug Use When the renowned social scientists of the Canadian Police Association testified to a Senate committee on illicit drugs, they claimed there is lots of evidence that liberal drug policies lead to greater drug use. "Legalization and permissiveness will increase drug use and abuse substantially," a spokesman told the senators. ..The experts I listen to are scientists. "Existing research seems to indicate that there is little apparent relationship between severity of sanctions prescribed for drug use and prevalence or frequency of use," concluded a 2001 report by a panel of the National Research Council, one of the U.S. National Academies of Science, probably the most esteemed scientific body in the world.
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| Jul 13, 2007 | Judge rules Canada's pot possession laws unconstitutional A Toronto judge has ruled that Canada's pot possession laws are unconstitutional after a man argued the country's medicinal marijuana regulations are flawed. The man has no medical issues and doesn't want a medical exemption to smoke marijuana....In court, the man argued that the federal government only made it policy to provide marijuana to those who need it, but never made it an actual law. Because of that, he argued, all possession laws, whether medicinal or not, should be quashed....The judge agreed and dismissed the charges.Borenstein has given prosecutors two weeks before he makes his ruling official.
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