Caught red-handed with dozens of kilos of coke and methamphetamine found at his home, a Montreal man was sentenced to five and a half years in prison on Tuesday for drug possession.
Judge Thierry Nadon endorsed the joint suggestion of prosecutor M.e Marie-Josée Thériault and defense attorney Me Isabelle Teolis. Simon Ouimette, 39, is therefore sentenced to five and a half years in prison. However, the drug trafficker has less than five months left to spend behind bars, due to preventive detention.
Large quantities of illicit substances were spread throughout his apartment in his home in the Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce borough and his car at the time of the searches carried out by the police in July 2021. “We are talking about astronomical quantities,” said Mr.e Thériault. Authorities found among these substances 4,800 tablets of isotonitazene, a synthetic opioid associated with several cases of overdoses.
The sleuths also seized 10.5kg of cocaine, 18kg of methamphetamine, 13kg of methamphetamine tablets, 1,000 Xanax tablets, three pounds of cannabis, 100 grams of cannabis-derived wax, 98 Cialis tablets and 1,000ml of GHB, known as the date rape drug.
It was in the spring of 2021 that officers from the Service de police de la Ville de Montréal (SPVM) learned that the owner of a Hyundai Elantra car was in possession of narcotics. This information allowed officers to find the owner of the car, a company related to Simon Ouimette.
He is then closely monitored by the authorities.
“This is not a simple street-level trafficker position. This is clearly organized and planned crime. He did not find himself in possession of these narcotics by chance,” added the Crown prosecutor.
Simon Ouimette had been detained since his arrest three years ago.