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N.B. soldier found guilty of secretly feeding troops cannabis-laced cupcakes
CBC news ^ | Aug 18, 2021 | Lauren Bird ·

Posted on 08/19/2021 10:32:49 AM PDT by jerod

Bombardier Chelsea Cogswell of Base Gagetown faces maximum of 5 years in prison

New Brunswick soldier accused of giving cannabis-laced cupcakes to troops on a live-fire training exercise has been found guilty of nine charges.

Bombardier Chelsea Cogswell was convicted Wednesday of eight counts of administering a noxious substance to soldiers without their consent and one count of behaving in a disgraceful manner, a charge under the National Defence Act, which carries a maximum sentence of five years in prison, according to the prosecution.

A 10th charge of committing an act to the prejudice of good order and discipline, which is a lesser offence than behaving in a disgraceful manner, was stayed.

Military Judge Cmdr. Sandra Sukstorf delivered her decision over two hours to a full courtroom Wednesday morning at 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown in Oromocto, N.B.

Cogswell, who was in charge of the canteen, was found to have put cannabis into cupcakes she had baked at home and distributed to soldiers in July 2018 when they were on a live-fire exercise. She didn't tell them about the cannabis.

(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...


TOPICS: Canada; Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cannabis; localnews; marijuana; pot; wod
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1 posted on 08/19/2021 10:32:49 AM PDT by jerod
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2 posted on 08/19/2021 10:33:32 AM PDT by jerod (Nazi's were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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High school must have been hell for that military judge.


3 posted on 08/19/2021 10:35:24 AM PDT by LIConFem (Read up on Russia's Oct, 1917 Revolution... And prepare.)
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I’m thinking none of the victims really cared, but then, you can’t go adulterating food and giving it to people clandestinely. That’s a huge no-no in my book.


4 posted on 08/19/2021 10:39:47 AM PDT by Mr Ramsbotham ("God is a spirit, and man His means of walking on the earth.")
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To: LIConFem

I wonder what one does to become referred to as the ‘the canteen bitch.’


5 posted on 08/19/2021 10:40:39 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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Bombardier Chelsea


6 posted on 08/19/2021 10:51:13 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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The judge already seems inclined to go easy on this woman.
“We need to find the good in all of us”


7 posted on 08/19/2021 10:51:38 AM PDT by lee martell
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I take it the physical fitness requirements there are rather loose.


8 posted on 08/19/2021 10:53:57 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: Jamestown1630

If the chow-hall girls at Homestead AFB were any indication, you really don’t want to know.


9 posted on 08/19/2021 10:56:15 AM PDT by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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At the end of the proceedings Sukstorf addressed Cogswell directly, telling her that she would get through this. "I've been on this bench long enough to see that there are a lot of good people that sometimes exercise very poor judgment."

"Sukstorf also said sentencing would be an opportunity for Cogswell, who didn't take the stand in her own defence, to tell her story.

"It's very important for us to see the good that lies behind an individual," she said.

(This, after Cogswell refused to own up to her crimes. But really, crimes like this are nothing to the Left.)

10 posted on 08/19/2021 10:58:47 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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I probably don’t.

But in my experience, one doesn’t acquire a label like that without somehow earning it.


11 posted on 08/19/2021 10:59:54 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: jerod; NobleFree

Prison? Just for cannabis pushed onto our boys fighting for our freedoms?

Whatever could that lead to, I wonder?


12 posted on 08/19/2021 11:16:35 AM PDT by Does so (The Media is the enemy of the people...Trial lawyers close behind...)
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Prison? Just for cannabis pushed onto our boys fighting for our freedoms?

Of course - just as if she'd secretly spiked their beverages with alcohol.

Whatever could that lead to, I wonder?

Cannabis leads to being stoned. Glad I could help.

13 posted on 08/19/2021 11:37:39 AM PDT by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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“...when they were on a live-fire exercise.”

What could go wrong?


14 posted on 08/19/2021 11:39:21 AM PDT by Fury
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The live-fire exercise must have gone verrrry slowwwwly.


15 posted on 08/19/2021 11:56:28 AM PDT by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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Well I guess HE dressed for the occasion, stripes:-)


16 posted on 08/19/2021 12:02:54 PM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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Commander Sukstorff? How did she get that na..., never mind.


17 posted on 08/19/2021 12:14:33 PM PDT by .44 Special (Taimid Buacharch)
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One of her descendants…


18 posted on 08/19/2021 1:06:40 PM PDT by GreenLanternCorps (Hi! I'm the Dread Pirate Roberts! (TM) Atsk about franchise opportunities in your area.)
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They caught her because all everyone wanted after their brownie was a bag of Fritos and a Dr. Pepper.


19 posted on 08/19/2021 1:33:40 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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“Have you sustained any casualties?”

“As a matter of fact, man, the whole platoon’s wiped out.”


20 posted on 08/19/2021 1:38:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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