A Prince George man was sentenced to a six-month conditional sentence Tuesday after pleading guilty to possession for the purpose of trafficking related to a police raid on a Quinson neighbourhood home nearly two years ago.
When police executed a search warrant on a 300 block Ruggles St. home on April 22, 2011, they uncovered 34 grams of powder cocaine and arrested John Paul Horth, 27, after it was determined he had thrown a baggy containing a portion out of a window as RCMP moved in.
The value of the cocaine was estimated at $1,500 to $4,200. A scale for measuring quantities of the drug was also seized.
Horth was described as a low end dealer who was selling cocaine to support his own habit and took responsibility for the quantity seized, although three others were also arrested at the time.
He pleaded guilty in July 2012 when the case reached the trial stage and a pre-sentence report was then drafted.
A conditional sentence means Horth will serve the term at home rather than in jail.
For the first two months, he will be allowed out of the home only for work and between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. each day for personal matters. For the following four months, Horth will be subject to a 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew.
In January, Horth was sentenced to one year probation with a suspended sentence for his role in an September 2011 attempt to intimidate some rivals in the drug trade.
Acting on a tip, police found Horth in the driver's seat of a sport utility vehicle in the 1100 block of 20th Ave. with Vincent Junior Joseph, 34, in the back, along with a baseball bat and a loaded sawed-off shotgun.
Police also found Dustin Lee Pierini, 33, a man known to police and the courts, brandishing a pair of brass knuckles.
The three had gone to the home to get back at some unidentified people for saying Horth was "washed up." Horth was aware of the baseball bat but did not know the gun had also been brought along, the court was told.
Joseph was sentenced to a four month conditional sentence and Pierini, as the architect of the plan, received one year in jail less credit for eight months time served on a two-for-one basis.
Speaking to the court Tuesday, Horth said he regrets his actions and made a bad decision.
