Canada - ~Hells Angel sentenced to 14 months for drug trafficking~
VANCOUVER - A Hells Angels member was sentenced today to 14 months for trafficking cocaine and producing methamphetamine.
John Punko, 43, was charged in 2005 after a two-year $10-million police investigation code-named Project E-Pandora.
The federal Crown was seeking a 16-year sentence for Punko, who pleaded guilty last Dec. 7 of being involved in a drug lab that made methamphetamine, trafficking five kilograms of cocaine and possessing more than $387,000 as proceeds of crime.
B.C. Supreme Court Justice Peter Leask said he would have sentenced Punko to six years in prison if the case had gone to trial, but deducted one year for pleading guilty last year, deducted another year for the "police involveme....
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