Christopher Thomas Hastings was taking advantage of his position as a prisoners’ spokesman and his status in a gang to run a drug-dealing business and illegal store within Stony Mountain
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He also pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for making phone calls after he was charged in attempts to get other inmates to admit they gave him the deadly opioid.Court heard investigators discovered Hastings was taking advantage of his position as a prisoners’ spokesman and his status in a gang to run a drug-dealing business and illegal store within Stony Mountain.
Garreck noted the danger of deadly overdoses was the same, regardless of whether Hastings knew what he was selling. He was sentenced to 10 years for the trafficking charge, six months for obstruction of justice and a concurrent six months for drug possession.James Bloomfield, prairie regional president of the Union of Canadian Correctional Officers and a correctional officer at Stony Mountain, said small amounts of carfentanil and fentanyl have been found at the prison in recent years.
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