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Published Jul 07, 2023 • Last updated 4 days ago • 2 minute read
The Ontario Court building at 44 Queen Street in Brantford, Ontario. Brian Thompson/Brantford Expositor/Postmedia Network Photo by Brian Thompson /Brian Thompson/The Expositor
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There are no conditional sentences for fentanyl dealers, an Ontario Court judge told a mother of three who had made considerable strides in rehabilitation since her arrest.
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Despite an argument presented by Karisa M. Nanticoke’s lawyer for her to remain in the community under house arrest, Justice Kathleen Baker would not agree and, instead, sent Nanticoke to prison for five years.
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“There was a substantial quantity of just about the worst drug on the market that’s leaving a trail of death and destruction in this community,” Baker said.
“Fentanyl trafficking and addiction is causing substantial problems here in the Brantford community where we have one of the highest rates of hospitalizations and overdoses in the province, and indeed, in the country.”
The judge said that means the “moral culpability” of anyone trafficking in fentanyl is very high.
Nanticoke was one of seven people arrested on Jan. 6, 2021 by Six Nations Police during a raid at a Pine Crescent home in Ohsweken.
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Officers found a large amount of fentanyl, worth about $57,000, plus cocaine, oxycodone and methadone. They also seized a large amount of Canadian currency, two motor vehicles and some suspected stolen property.
Nanticoke was convicted after a trial…
