A photo taken by police at the time of the incident in January, 2020. (Submitted photo/ Prince Albert Police Service)

By Nigel Maxwell

Drugs in the city

Prince Albert drug trafficker receives 20 month jail sentence

Nov 19, 2020 | 2:15 PM

A 25-year-old man will serve jail time in connection to a drug bust in Prince Albert last January.

Austin LaFond was sentenced to 20 months, after entering guilty pleas Wednesday morning at Prince Albert Provincial Court to possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking, as well as possession of a firearm.

On the night of January 23, police searched a residence in the 100 block of 29th St. E. and found various amounts of methamphetamine, cocaine, hydromorphone capsules, diazepam pills, gabapentin pills, psilocybin, as well as a cutting agent and a functioning scale.

Also located was the gun in a bedroom, as well as a functioning stun gun, cell phones and ammunition.

Madison Person, 23, was one of two other people charged in the case and received an 18 month conditional sentence order (CSO) for possession of the stun gun as well as a breach of a previous court order prohibiting her from possessing a weapon. The CSO means she will not serve jail time but will be under a number of conditions she must follow, or risk serving the remainder of her sentence in custody.

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Peter McKay, 24, was also charged but the Federal Crown ultimately decided not to proceed, finding no evidence he was involved.

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