The B.C. Court of Appeal granted a break to a Prince George man who was sentenced to federal prison for guns and drugs offences.
In a decision issued last week, the court reduced the term for Eric James Fike by three months. The adjustment was based on a reconsideration of the credit he deserved for time spent in custody prior to sentencing.
Fike was sentenced in March 2012 to a further five years and with the reduction, his sentence is now over.
Fike was arrested in September 2010, two days after police uncovered a backpack containing a submachine gun, a nine-millimetre handgun, a .45 calibre handgun and about 50 rounds of ammunition, along with eight ounces of cocaine in a wooded area along Lower Mud River Road west of the city.
Fike was apprehended when he returned to the scene and a subsequent search of his home in the 6100 block of Gauthier Road uncovered two more ounces of cocaine, paraphernalia and ingredients to make crack cocaine, roughly three pounds of marijuana, more ammunition, and flaps of heroin.
At the time of his arrest, police described Fike as a high-ranking member of the Game Tight Soldiers, a street-level gang that runs the cocaine trade in conjunction with the Renegades biker gang, a Hells Angels puppet club.
But during the sentencing hearing Tuesday, the court was told he's given up the gang life and has had a gang tattoo on his ankle erased.
