Arden McCann, a resident of Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, on the south shore of Montreal, who exported large quantities of fentanyl and counterfeit Xanax to the United States via the clandestine internet, has just been sentenced to 30 years in prison by a Georgia state judge.
Posted at 2:12 p.m.
In making his ruling, Judge Jean-Paul Boulee recommended to the U.S. Bureau of Prisons that McCann, 37, be held in a center that offers a drug treatment program.
The judge also said he understood that the Bureau of Prisons will grant credit of two years, three months and twelve days for the period of preventive detention spent in Quebec, between February 26, 2020, the day of his arrest by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. , and June 9, 2022, the day of his extradition to the United States.
Thousands of transactions
According to US court documents, McCann would have, through just two underground internet platforms, shipped 8,3450 orders of substances worth more than US$10 million, between 2015 and 2020.
He sent his substances to 49 of the 50 American states and they caused at least one fatal overdose.
Arden McCann allegedly boasted to an accomplice that his business brought him a million dollars monthly.
-According to the evidence, McCann purchased the drugs and precursor products from China, South Korea or elsewhere, and had them delivered to American clients who became relayers.
These processed the drug and mailed it to American consumers. All transactions were made in cryptocurrency.
Torchbearers turned collaborating witnesses helped police nail McCann.
This heavy sentence imposed on McCann comes at a time when American President Donald Trump is pointing the finger at Canada as being one of those responsible for the presence in his country of this substance which is creating havoc.
The fact that he continued his business despite a police search of his home in 2015, that 15 firearms were found in his residence during this search, and that synthetic cannabis was discovered in his cell in his American prison last year likely didn’t help McCann’s cause.
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