LETHBRIDGE HERALDdshurtz@lethbridgeherald.comA sentencing hearing for a California couple caught trying to smuggle drugs through the Coutts border nearly
Sentencing date set for fall for couple found guilty in drug smuggling case
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A California couple caught at the Coutts border as they tried to smuggle nearly 100 kilograms of cocaine into Alberta, is set to have a sentencing hearing later this fall.
Gurminder and Kirandeep Toor were found guilty by a jury last month of drug smuggling, but the matter was adjourned to find a date for the sentencing hearing. That hearing, a judge was told Monday in Lethbridge Court of Queen’s Bench, has been set for Oct. 29.
In addition to smuggling, Gurminder was found guilty of drug possession for the purpose of trafficking, and although Kirandeep faced the same charge, she was found not guilty of drug possession for the purpose of trafficking, but guilty of the lesser and included offence of simple drug possession.
Sentencing date set for fall for couple found guilty in drug smuggling case
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A California couple caught at the Coutts border as they tried to smuggle nearly 100 kilograms of cocaine into Alberta, is set to have a sentencing hearing later this fall.
Gurminder and Kirandeep Toor were found guilty by a jury last month of drug smuggling, but the matter was adjourned to find a date for the sentencing hearing. That hearing, a judge was told Monday in Lethbridge Court of Queen’s Bench, has been set for Oct. 29.
Jury finds couple guilty in drug smuggling trial
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Kirandeep Taur Toor sobbed and braced herself against a table, minutes after a jury found her guilty of trying to smuggle drugs into Alberta more than three years ago. Her husband, Gurminder Toor, placed a consoling arm around her, but he, too, was found guilty of drug smuggling, as well as drug possession for the purpose of trafficking. The jury found Kirandeep not guilty of drug possession for the purpose of trafficking, but guilty of the lesser and included offence of simple drug possession. Gurminder, 34, showed little emotion following the jury’s verdict, and quietly led his wife out of the Yates Memorial Centre where the Court of Queen’s Bench trial began last week in front of Madam Justice Johnna Kubik.
Jury begins deliberations in drug smuggling trial
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The Crown has failed to prove Kirandeep Taur Toor knew there was 100 kilograms of cocaine in the tractor-trailer her husband was driving in 2017, and she never should have been charged, Calgary lawyer Patrick Fagan told a jury Monday. “It’s high time to set this woman free,” Fagan said during his closing arguments in Lethbridge Court of Queen’s Bench, where Kirandeep and her husband, Gurminder Toor, are on trial for drug smuggling and drug possession for the purpose of trafficking. The California couple both testified last week they were surprised when border officers told them they found 84 bricks of cocaine hidden inside the truck after the two accused arrived at the Coutts border Dec. 2, 2017.