CFB Wainwright staff face 70 drug charges

Range from possession of a controlled substance to trafficking

Twelve soldiers have been slapped with drug charges after cocaine, ecstasy, cannabis and a range of other drugs worth about $10,000 were seized from CFB Wainwright in western Alberta. A lab producing DMT, a powerful hallucinogen, was also discovered. “This is a rare occurrence where we have such an investigation of this magnitude with this result,” said Maj. Daniel Dandurant, the officer in charge of the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service’s Western Region Detachment. The accused are Cpl. Thomas MacDougall, Pte. Jeffrey Brennan, Pte. Benjamin Humphrey, Pte. Dominique Malette, Pte. Glen Morgan, Pte. Michael Polack, Pte. Claude Roger Rocan, Pte. Clayton Taylor and Pte. Matthew Wright, as well as Michael Masserey, David McKinnell and Melyssa Lake, three former privates who worked on the base.

CBC News

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