A 37-year-old store owner in Prince George was sentenced July 22 to a year of house arrest, a year of curfew and three years probation for possessing nearly half-a-kilogram of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
Robyn Ann Bradley pleaded guilty in BC Supreme Court on Jan. 13, more than four years after her arrest.
Bradley emerged as a person of interest while the Prince George RCMP street crew investigated a suspected drug trafficker in 2020.
Bradley was a target of surveillance and vehicle tracking in November 2020 and observed making several short-duration stops consistent with drug trafficking and frequenting a suspected safe house near the former Central Fort George elementary school.
Officers arrested Bradley Dec. 3, 2020 in a black GMC Canyon pickup truck.
As an officer led her away, a brown paper bag fell from Bradley’s jacket. It contained 493.98 grams of cocaine, with a purity ranging from 78-91%. When she pleaded guilty in January, federal prosecutor Mansi Khajuria told the court that the street value of the cocaine was estimated at between $17,289 and $49,398.
Church accepted the joint Crown and defence sentencing proposal.
Bradley’s defence lawyer, Jason LeBlond, said his client had no prior criminal record and “stayed out of the attention of any authorities since the date of this offence.”
LeBlond called the fall of 2020 a “bad time for her,” but Bradley now regrets her decisions and is remorseful.
Church said that Bradley can leave her home during the house arrest term with written permission of a conditional sentence supervisor for employment, childcare or other compelling reasons.
The curfew in the second year runs 8 p.m. to 6 a.m. daily.
Bradley must complete 80 hours of community work service by January 2027. She must not possess firearms for 10 years and is allowed to possess only one mobile phone with one number registered in her name.
She cannot possess any drug paraphernalia, except for a naloxone kit.
Church also ordered Bradley to stay away from certain, named individuals and to attend a counselling program as directed by the conditional sentencing supervisor.
“Ms. Bradley, you've done very good work between the date of this offence and now,” Church said. “Keep up the good work.”
