A Fort St. John man has been sentenced to 32 months in prison after being busted with more than 200 pills laced with fentanyl in a Walmart fitting room in 2018.
Sam Jr. Archibald Capot Blanc-Acko was sentenced to 985 days in BC Supreme Court on Tuesday, Dec. 10. He was convicted on two counts of possession for purposes of trafficking and two counts of possessing a dangerous weapon in July.
Capot Blanc-Acko was arrested March 2, 2018, after he was seen walking into the Fort St. John Walmart with a gun tucked into his waistband. Both uniform and plainclothes officers swarmed the store where they found Capot Blanc-Acko in the fitting room with containers of green pills.
Police seized 223 tablets in total, including dozens hidden in a plastic Kinder egg container, that were tested and confirmed to contain fentanyl. Police also seized an air gun and a baton from the fitting room.
At trial, experts testified the number of pills seized would make Capot Blanc-Acko a mid-level dealer. If sold in singles, the street value of the seized pills would be $6,700, court heard.
Capot Blanc-Acko was sentenced to 985 days in jail on each count of trafficking, to be served concurrently, and was issued a lifetime firearms ban.
He was sentenced to time served, issued a lifetime firearms ban, and ordered to submit for a DNA sample on the weapons charges.
