A man was found guilty Monday of three counts of dealing heroin and fentanyl at the street level.
Vincent Edward Roy Peters, 53, had originally been charged with five counts of selling the opioids to undercover officers over June, July and August 2016.
However, Crown elected to not pursue one of the charges and, in a decision issued Monday, provincial court judge Peter McDermick found Peters was not a party to the sale in another.
McDermick found Peters guilty of selling 0.1 grams to an undercover officer on June 22, 2016 and .25 grams on Aug. 27, 2016, each containing a combination of heroin, fentanyl and acetyl fentanyl.
Both transactions occurred downtown near Third and George.
Discrepancies on the weights initially recorded and those after the lab tests were completed raised questions about continuity of evidence, but McDermick put the differences down to a clerical error in one case and rounding up the number in another.
Peters was also found guilty of trafficking for an Aug. 25, 2016 transaction. Details were not provided.
On the count for which Peters was found not guilty, McDermick found that while the undercover officer had approached Peters on June 24, 2016 to make a purchase it was actually someone else who provided the drugs and took the cash. McDermick also found reasonable doubt as to whether Peters aided and abetted the deal.
The matter is not over yet. At a hearing on June 19, Crown and defence counsels will make submissions on whether Peters was entrapped.
On the charge for which Crown did not pursue a case, Jeremy Corbin Gunanoot, 45, faces a disposition hearing on August 23.
