Band councillor gets one year for drug trafficking

YORKTON, Sask. — A band councillor and former chief of the Key First Nation in Saskatchewan has been sentenced to one year in jail on drug and weapon charges. Clarence Papequash pleaded guilty in March to possession of codeine for the purpose of trafficking and possession of ammunition while prohibited. Court heard that Mounties executed a search warrant in February at his home on the reserve east of Saskatoon and seized 57 Tylenol 3 pills and 96 shotgun shells and cartridges. Papequash, who is 64, was suspended as a councillor after the charges were laid.