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A police officer who co-ordinated a program to wipe out marijuana outdoor grow operations fed information about the location of the crops to two men, so that they could harvest the pot before police raids, a court has heard.
Ontario Provincial Police Det. Const. Scott Duguid, 34, pleaded guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice yesterday to breach of trust in connection with incidents in Simcoe County in August and September, 2003.
In an agreed statement of facts read in court by federal Crown attorney Stephane Marinier, court heard Duguid, an eight-year member of the OPP, was transferred to the Huronia Combined Force Drug Enforcement Unit in 2000. There he took on the role of managing the program to search for and destroy outdoor marijuana.
Police intercepted calls between Duguid, Jody Proctor, 27, and his brother Jamie Proctor, 29, who at the time was a prisoner at the Warkworth Institution. In conversations caught on tape, Jody Proctor told his brother that Duguid had given the longitude and latitude directions to marijuana fields. The brothers discussed harvesting the crops and estimated they could make between $250,000 and $500,000 on one of the larger sites.
In another taped conversation, the brothers also make references to paying Duguid $1,000 for helping them, but state at least twice that he doesn't seem interested in the money.
The Proctors were arrested Sept. 23, 2003, four days after Jamie Proctor was released from prison. Jody Proctor pleaded guilty in November, 2003, to conspiring to traffic marijuana and was sentenced to two years in jail. Jamie Proctor received an 18-month sentence for the same offence.
Duguid, who had been recommended for promotion and had just sat his sergeant's exams passing with the third highest marks in the province when he was arrested, was suspended with pay pending the outcome of the case.
A four-day sentencing hearing for Duguid is scheduled to start June 19, 2006.
Source: Toronto Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2005 The Toronto Star
Contact: lettertoed@thestar.com
Website: The Toronto Star - Breaking News, Toronto News, Ontario News, Canada News
Ontario Provincial Police Det. Const. Scott Duguid, 34, pleaded guilty in the Ontario Court of Justice yesterday to breach of trust in connection with incidents in Simcoe County in August and September, 2003.
In an agreed statement of facts read in court by federal Crown attorney Stephane Marinier, court heard Duguid, an eight-year member of the OPP, was transferred to the Huronia Combined Force Drug Enforcement Unit in 2000. There he took on the role of managing the program to search for and destroy outdoor marijuana.
Police intercepted calls between Duguid, Jody Proctor, 27, and his brother Jamie Proctor, 29, who at the time was a prisoner at the Warkworth Institution. In conversations caught on tape, Jody Proctor told his brother that Duguid had given the longitude and latitude directions to marijuana fields. The brothers discussed harvesting the crops and estimated they could make between $250,000 and $500,000 on one of the larger sites.
In another taped conversation, the brothers also make references to paying Duguid $1,000 for helping them, but state at least twice that he doesn't seem interested in the money.
The Proctors were arrested Sept. 23, 2003, four days after Jamie Proctor was released from prison. Jody Proctor pleaded guilty in November, 2003, to conspiring to traffic marijuana and was sentenced to two years in jail. Jamie Proctor received an 18-month sentence for the same offence.
Duguid, who had been recommended for promotion and had just sat his sergeant's exams passing with the third highest marks in the province when he was arrested, was suspended with pay pending the outcome of the case.
A four-day sentencing hearing for Duguid is scheduled to start June 19, 2006.
Source: Toronto Star (CN ON)
Copyright: 2005 The Toronto Star
Contact: lettertoed@thestar.com
Website: The Toronto Star - Breaking News, Toronto News, Ontario News, Canada News
