A Fort St. John man has been sentenced to jail following a child sex crime investigation at a local park last year.
Tyler Joshua Drapeau was arrested June 19, 2021, after police were called to Kin Park to reports a man had solicited sexual touching from two children under 16 in exchange for a video game card.
When officers arrived, witnesses identified a man in a nearby vehicle and Drapeau was arrested without incident.
Drapeau, 34, pleaded guilty to one count of invitation to sexual touching and was convicted in March of this year.
He was sentenced to 317 days jail during a hearing in provincial court Friday, Dec. 16, and credited 48 days of pre-sentence time in custody, according to court records.
Drapeau was also sentenced to 18 months probation, ordered to submit a DNA sample, and given a mandatory 10-year firearms prohibition.
He was named to the national sex offender registry for 20 years, and given a five-year sexual offence order under the Criminal Code prohibiting him from activities and locations where children under 16 are present.
The Crown dropped a second charge of communicating with a person under 18 for the purpose of obtaining sexual services, according to court records.
In 2017, Drapeau was fined and had his registration as a pharmacist suspended for six months after he was caught dispensing medication for himself and others dozens of times without a valid prescription, according to the College of Pharmacists of B.C.
The college also barred him from working as a pharmacy manager for three years following his reinstatement; however, at the time of his arrest last year, his registration had not been reinstated, according to a report by the Vancouver Sun.
