Man gets 2 years in prison after drugs, guns bust
Christopher Derrett was one of 11 arrested in police crackdown
A Peterborough man has pleaded guilty in connection to a large drugs and guns bust in October.
The probe, which was led by Peterborough police, resulted in 11 arrests after 13 residential search warrants and seven search warrants on vehicles were executed on Oct. 30. A total of four warrants were executed in the city, four in the City of Kawartha Lakes and one in Bridgenorth. The others were carried out in Scarborough and the Belleville area.
Christopher Derrett, who was arrested in the Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory on Oct. 30, was charged with three counts of possession of a firearm while prohibited, possession of stolen property, possession of fentanyl, careless use/storage of firearm and unauthorized possession of a firearm.
On Nov. 20, the 38-year-old pleaded guilty in the Ontario court of justice in Peterborough to two counts of possession of a firearm while prohibited, possession of fentanyl and unauthorized possession of a firearm.
Justice Robert Beninger sentenced Derrett to a total of two years in federal prison.
Derrett received 18 months on one count of possession of a firearm while prohibited and a six-month sentence for unauthorized possession of a firearm.
He was also handed a fourmonth concurrent sentence for possession of fentanyl and a 12-month concurrent sentence on the second charge of possession of a firearm while prohibited.
Police say that the warrants were the result of a nine-week, co-ordinated joint forces project that targeted individuals allegedly trafficking in drugs and weapons from Peterborough, the GTA, the City of Kawartha Lakes and Deseronto.
More than $35,000 in Canadian currency was seized, along with six handguns and three rifles with ammunition, and a conducted-energy weapon, police say.
At a news conference on Nov. 1, Peterborough police provided a breakdown of the drugs that were seized: a total of 305.34 grams of suspected blue fentanyl with an average street value of $92,000, a total of 1,520 grams of suspected cocaine with an average street value of $152,000 and a total of 38.8 grams of suspected crystal meth with an average street value of $3,800.