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Niagara cop found guilty of cheese smuggling (from 2015)
Niagara Falls Review ^ | 9/28/2015

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


TOPICS: Canada; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: bit; canada; cheese; eh; moose; sister; tariffs
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To: Magnum44

Cheese and chicken wing smuggling?

Heavy dude...that should be Chicago’s biggest problem. What a chicken shit country.


21 posted on 06/11/2018 2:19:26 PM PDT by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Red Badger

There is no shortage but we do like ze cheese along with moose and sisters. Canada is almost as fat as America.


22 posted on 06/11/2018 2:24:37 PM PDT by xp38
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To: dfwgator

It’s a feta accompli..............


23 posted on 06/11/2018 2:29:30 PM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: llevrok

Where did he stash the cheese?


24 posted on 06/11/2018 2:33:42 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Spygate's clock began in 2015 - what did President Obama know and when did he know it?)
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To: a fool in paradise

Did he also steal the Kishka?


25 posted on 06/11/2018 2:34:40 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

I have the Ritz crackers...give me all your cheeses!


26 posted on 06/11/2018 2:35:03 PM PDT by miserare ( Indict Hillary!)
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To: xp38
Perhaps the cheese was heading to the cheese eating surrender monkeys in Montreal.


27 posted on 06/11/2018 2:36:19 PM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you)
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To: llevrok
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.

Cheese and chicken wings are drugs. Gotchya.

28 posted on 06/11/2018 2:37:58 PM PDT by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: Red Badger
270%!...............That’s a Gouda amount....Just Edam!.............

Groan ... definitely a pun of the day finalist!

29 posted on 06/11/2018 2:47:48 PM PDT by SFConservative
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To: SFConservative

No biggie......it was a Bries.................


30 posted on 06/11/2018 2:50:02 PM PDT by Red Badger (When Obama and VJ go to prison for treason, will Roseanne get her show back?...)
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To: Red Badger

[[They have a shortage of cheese and chicken wings in Canada?]]

yes, the chickens in canada have all lost their wings


31 posted on 06/11/2018 2:57:02 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: Bob434

How will they make their “Kroff Dinner” without Cheese?


32 posted on 06/11/2018 2:57:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Red Badger

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.


33 posted on 06/11/2018 2:59:13 PM PDT by scrabblehack
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To: llevrok

So Canada has gotten so bad that folks are having to smuggle food across the border?


34 posted on 06/11/2018 3:07:38 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: dfwgator

Cheese smuggling- now there’s a criminal operation no one aw coming lol


35 posted on 06/11/2018 3:10:25 PM PDT by Bob434
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To: llevrok

It’s not gouda to smuggle gouda inside a Budah.

Nor chicken wings. You will end up in Sing Sing.

5.56mm


36 posted on 06/11/2018 3:14:07 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: dfwgator

How do you come up with this stuff?

You write for a network. Yes, I can see it now.

Come clean!

5.56mm


37 posted on 06/11/2018 3:18:09 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: Verginius Rufus

“Feeling a bit peckish.” Great skit, one of the classics.


38 posted on 06/11/2018 3:29:21 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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To: dfwgator

Way too much cheese . . .


39 posted on 06/11/2018 3:30:37 PM PDT by txnativegop (The political left, Mankinds intellectual hemlock)
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To: Red Badger

“It’s a feta accompli..............”

Good one!


40 posted on 06/11/2018 3:32:08 PM PDT by BatGuano (You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
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