Sault Police seized nearly 41 grams of fentanyl from 29-year-old Joshua Benoit-Wilson, who has a lengthy criminal record of assault, drug and weapons offences
A drug dealer caught with a significant amount of a deadly narcotic in 2021 was sentenced Monday to five years in a federal penitentiary.
Benoit-Wilson, who faced a lengthy two-and-half page list of charges, pleaded guilty to a number of offences in February, including three counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking. "We're dealing with an epidemic in our community and across the province," she told Condon, calling the combination of weapons and drugs an aggravating factor.
In addition to the drug offences, he was convicted of possession of a prohibited weapon , possessing them when he was banned from having weapons and failing to comply with a court order requirement that he have no drugs.His client has a high school and college education and worked as an arborist, Willson said.Benoit-Wilson's mother passed away while he's been in custody and the Crown agreed to release him to attend her Celebration of Life in Sarnia in May.
"The sentences got higher and higher, longer and longer, to discourage you from coming back to the criminal justice system, but it didn't do that.""There is some optimism today for your rehabilitation."
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