A street-level drug dealer was sentenced Wednesday to a year in jail.
Wallace Dean Patrick, 49, was issued the term in Prince George provincial court for two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking committed in May and June 2015.
The first incident occurred when RCMP, acting on a tip according to a press release issued at the time, had stopped Patrick on Victoria Street and uncovered cash, a cellphone and a room key for a local motel.
A subsequent search of the room uncovered quantities of methamphetamine, cocaine, heroin and marijuana, the court heard Wednesday.
A bit less than eight weeks later, Patrick was arrested again when RCMP checked out what appeared to be a man urinating in an alley between Second and Third Avenues near Dominion Street downtown.
The officers came across two men near a dumpster and saw them throw what turned out methamphetamine and two $20 bills away as they were approached. The other man, Darryl Bryan Tom, was later assessed $400 in victim surcharges for two counts of possession of a controlled substance and breaching an undertaking.
Patrick was also issued a lifetime firearms prohibition and assessed $400 in victim surcharges. The sentence was a joint submission after Patrick had pleaded guilty to the counts although he maintained he had been "set up" during the May incident according to a pre-sentence report.
