Sentences with phrase «by cocaine trafficking»

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When cocaine routes changed from the Caribbean to land routes in Mexico in the late 1990s, the Gulf Cartel transformed into a drug trafficking organization by utilizing the networks they had created earlier.

The thirst for headlines and the inflation of ineffective bureaucracy and legislative hyperactivity distract the Government and successive Home Secretaries from the real job at hand: getting more police on the street with the single imperative of cutting crime, and a dedicated border police force to reverse our current vulnerability, which has seen the street value of cocaine and heroin slashed by almost half, while estimates show that the numbers of young women and girls trafficked into prostitution have quadrupled.»

Criminal law: The appellant was charged with trafficking marijuana and cocaine, possession of a prohibited weapon and breach of probation, but the charges were stayed by the trial judge on the basis of unreasonable delay.

This is my decision on the defence application to have me find unconstitutional the minimum three year period of imprisonment imposed upon conviction for firearms trafficking required by Section 99 (2) of the Criminal Code of Canada and my reasons for sentence for that offence and three counts of trafficking in cocaine.

Mr. White was subsequently charged with possession of marijuana and cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, possession of cocaine, and possession of property obtained by a crime.

In a case involving possession of a small amount of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, the prosecutor will frequently seek a sentence of two years or two and a half years on a guilty plea by an offender with no prior, or unrelated, record.

Client charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine who had possession of 90 grams of cocaine pled guilty to simple possession of cocaine for having possession of 1 gram due to constitutional issues raised by the defence prior to trial.

Criminal offences arising from possession, trafficking and production of drugs such as marihuana, cocaine, heroin, ketamine, methamphetamine, oxycodone and oxycontin are handed by the federal prosecution service, and are prosecuted very aggressively.