Author: The Law Office of Patrick C. Fagan, K.C.
Witness to talk via video linkup
A Mexican witness in a cocaine-smuggling case won’t have to worry about braving Canada’s cold winter, the Crown said yesterday. Prosecutor Dan Misutka said he [...]
Strange twist in smuggling trial
A cocaine-smuggling suspect is not the man he says he is, a prosecutor charged yesterday. And Crown lawyer Dan Misutka said he can prove the [...]
Prosecutors hope to link drug cases
A trial began Thursday for a Mexican man alleged to be involved in the smuggling of 60 kilograms of cocaine into Calgary, the largest such [...]
Customs officer details drug find
Newly issued passports and vague plans led customs officials to be suspicious of a Mexican couple arriving in Calgary, a court heard yesterday. And those [...]
Mexican man awaits verdict in cocaine case
The fate of a Mexican man accused of being involved in the largest cocaine smuggling case in Alberta history is in the hands of a [...]
Workmen find massive magic mushroom crop
As soon as Calgary police Det. Ryan Dobson walked into the affluent condo tucked into a southwest gated community, moist, earthy air played upon his [...]
Judge frees cocaine case suspect
The suspected “greeter” in the biggest cocaine bust in Alberta history walked away from a Calgary courtroom yesterday a free man. Justice Scott Brooker ruled [...]
Canada won’t allow visits with accused, Mexican envoys say
Mexican diplomats trying to help three people arrested in Calgary last Saturday on cocaine smuggling charges say they are being thwarted by Canadian bureaucracy. “We [...]
Drug proof disputed
The Crown may have bundles of seized cocaine, but it has no evidence to prove a suspected drug smuggler was waiting for its arrival, a [...]
Mushroom bust magical
City cops have smashed what’s thought to be the biggest magic mushroom grow and trafficking operation in Calgary’s history. Officers from District 2 backed up [...]