Fed up with issuing warnings and tickets that had little effect, municipal bylaw charges citing almost two-dozen breaches of city bylaws were sworn.
Anderson pleaded guilty last fall to numerous counts of operating a business without a licence and using a premise for a purpose not allowed under city bylaws,
North Shore News reports.
This week, he was sentenced. Judge Joanne Challenger of B.C.’s provincial court ordered that he pay the maximum fine of $252,000. The money is to go to the City of North Vancouver and Anderson has been banned from working in or being involved in any unlicensed cannabis retail store for a year.