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Current Affairs 2007 - Corruption (14 items)
| Dec 6, 2007 | Police Officer Loses Appeal, Must Resign Over Cocaine An Ottawa police officer ordered to resign after stealing crack cocaine for his own use has lost an appeal to keep his job.
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| Oct 14, 2007 | OPP Officer Charged Following Drug Raid A longtime local OPP officer, now working in northern Ontario, is charged following a drug raid by the provincial police near Thunder Bay.
Det.-Const. Lynn MacKay, who worked in London for years under her married name, Lynn Pretty, before joining the Nipigon OPP, was charged along with her boyfriend following an Oct. 5 raid on a house that netted $6,000 worth of marijuana.
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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 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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| Jul 6, 2007 | ON: Police Officer Arrested During Series Of Raids Toronto police have accused one of their own officers of helping an Eastern European organized crime group charged with importing and exporting marijuana and cocaine between Canada and the United States.
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| Jun 28, 2007 | MB: Ex-Cop Faces Grow-Op Charge A retired Winnipeg police officer who recently came under scrutiny for his role in the wrongful conviction of James Driskell has been charged with running a marijuana grow operation in his home.
Bill VanderGraaf, 56, was arrested in April after police received a tip that he was allegedly manufacturing drugs in the basement of his East Kildonan home.
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| Jun 27, 2007 | Gatineau Officer To Remain Jailed Until Trial A Gatineau police officer charged with possession of narcotics will be detained until his trial.
At the end of a day-long bail hearing, Justice Jules Barriere ruled that Peter Vranas, 41, should not be released, to "maintain the confidence of the public in the administration of justice."
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| Jun 22, 2007 | QU: Gatineau Officer Arrested On Cocaine Charge A Gatineau police officer has been charged with drug-related offences after more than two kilograms of cocaine was found in the car he was in late Wednesday.
Peter Vranas, 41, remained calm as he was remanded yesterday. The 20-year veteran of the force will remain behind bars until his bail hearing, which is scheduled for Tuesday at the Gatineau courthouse.
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| May 30, 2007 | ON: Party Ends in Punishment for Police Officers A Peel Regional Police officer has been demoted for "unwanted sexual touching" involving a woman he was with while he and another officer were partying in Ottawa. ...Ho Sue allowed one of the women "to blow the marijuana smoke into his mouth as they were kissing," according to the disciplinary report.
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| Apr 16, 2007 | Health Canada Marks Up Medical Marijuana 1,500% [...Records obtained under the Access to Information Act show that Health Canada pays $328.75 for each kilogram of bulk medical marijuana produced by Prairie Plant Systems Inc.
The company has a $10.3-million contract with Health Canada, which expires at the end of September, to grow standardized medical marijuana in an abandoned mine shaft in Flin Flon.
Health Canada, in turn, sells the marijuana to a small group of authorized users for $150 -- plus GST -- for each 30-gram bag of ground-up flowering tops, with a strength of up to 14 per cent THC, the main active ingredient. That works out to $5,000 for each kilogram, or a markup of more than 1,500 per cent...]
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| Mar 24, 2007 | The BC Border Guard Who Partied With Hells Angels Investigation Concludes Her Conduct Creates An 'Untenable Security Risk' For The Canadian Border Services
A female B.C. border guard who partied with Hells Angels and went to one of their clubhouses may still be working in border services, The Vancouver Sun has learned.
The Canadian Border Services Agency concluded that the guard's conduct created "an untenable security risk for the agency" but refuses to disclose whether she is still on the payroll.
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| Mar 23, 2007 | OPP Cop Here Faces Trafficking Charges An 18-month probe into the drug and contraband cigarette trade in this community has led to several charges against a Grenville County OPP officer.
Maurice Morrissette, 37, a resident of Kemptville, was arrested Thursday on charges of trafficking in an illegal substance, possession of an illegal substance and obstructing justice.
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| Mar 19, 2007 | RCMP Entrapped Accused, Visiting Judge Concludes Crown prosecutors have dropped drug charges against 15 people who were arrested following a two-month undercover RCMP investigation throughout the territory last fall.
Crown prosecutor Ludovic Gouallier said this morning visiting Justice Rene Foisy of Alberta sided with the entrapment argument presented in a Faro resident's case in February.
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| Mar 13, 2007 | Alleged Trafficker Reels As $2.9 Million Vanishes During its three-year investigation of the Italian Mafia in Montreal, the RCMP secretly broke into cars, homes and safes of alleged drug dealers and bookmakers, seizing millions of dollars in cash and sowing dissent and confusion among gangsters that almost led to a homicide.
On the night of Sept. 14, 2006, the RCMP, acting on a search warrant, broke into a Laval home belonging to the parents of a suspected drug trafficker and seized $2.9 million.
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