Posted on 06/11/2018 1:50:10 PM PDT by llevrok
Niagara Regional Police Const. Scott Heron has been found guilty of four criminal charges that include conspiracy to smuggle cheese and chicken wings across the border from the United States into Canada.
Heron, 42, had been charged with six counts, three of which related to the Customs Act, and three breach of trust charges that related to his duties as a police officer.
Heron was found guilty on all three of the charges laid under the Customs Act, but only one breach of trust charge.
Justice James Ramsay delivered his decision on Friday following a five-day trial in the Superior Court of Justice in Welland.
The Crown's case depended heavily on the evidence of former NRP Const. Geoff Purdie who lost his job in April 2013 following his conviction in a Buffalo courtroom on a charge of conspiracy to smuggle steroids from the United States into Canada.
Purdie received a sentence of one year in jail, which he served in an American prison. Part of his plea agreement with U.S. officials was that he would testify in court about the cheese smuggling operation.
Court heard how Heron would phone in the cheese orders to a Buffalo pizza supply company, Purdie would pick them up in his truck and drive back across the Peace Bridge in Fort Erie. He was never stopped at the border because in addition to his passport, he would show his warrant card, which identified him as a police officer.
The investigation began in January 2012 and involved Niagara police, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the Canada Border Services Agency.
The initial investigation focused on Purdie's cross-border activities and it led to the large-scale cheese and chicken wings smuggling operation.
The judge said he believed Purdie was telling the truth, in spite of his character as a drug smuggler. His evidence was also confirmed by the testimony of other witnesses who testified at trial, along with some of the documents that had been presented, which included phone records and purchase invoices from a Buffalo pizza supply company
Cheese and chicken wing smuggling?
Heavy dude...that should be Chicago’s biggest problem. What a chicken shit country.
There is no shortage but we do like ze cheese along with moose and sisters. Canada is almost as fat as America.
It’s a feta accompli..............
Where did he stash the cheese?
Did he also steal the Kishka?
I have the Ritz crackers...give me all your cheeses!
Cheese and chicken wings are drugs. Gotchya.
Groan ... definitely a pun of the day finalist!
No biggie......it was a Bries.................
[[They have a shortage of cheese and chicken wings in Canada?]]
yes, the chickens in canada have all lost their wings
How will they make their “Kroff Dinner” without Cheese?
The last time I went to Canada, I stopped at an A&W. The prices in Canada were quite a bit higher than in the USA.
On the other hand, I’d be reluctant to buy chicken wings in Canada out of a US cop’s trunk.
So Canada has gotten so bad that folks are having to smuggle food across the border?
Cheese smuggling- now there’s a criminal operation no one aw coming lol
It’s not gouda to smuggle gouda inside a Budah.
Nor chicken wings. You will end up in Sing Sing.
5.56mm
How do you come up with this stuff?
You write for a network. Yes, I can see it now.
Come clean!
5.56mm
“Feeling a bit peckish.” Great skit, one of the classics.
Way too much cheese . . .
“It’s a feta accompli..............”
Good one!
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