A B.C. man was sentenced to nearly three years in prison by a judge who scolded him for the "grotesque act" of getting his mother unknowingly involved in transporting $100,000 worth of cocaine.
"Being the mother of a wayward child can be a very thankless experience," provincial court Judge Thomas Woods wrote about Christopher Mauro, who was sentenced last month to two years and 10 months in prison for possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
The case centres on a traffic accident in February 2013. Mauro rear-ended a pickup truck with his 2009 Audi A4 at Clarke Road and Barnet Highway in Port Moody.
Court documents show that soon after the crash, Mauro called his mother, who drove to the scene.
Mauro transferred a grocery bag from his vehicle to hers, without her knowing that it contained 1.3 kilograms of cocaine.
Mauro didn't know, however, that the driver of the pickup truck took a picture of him transferring the bag, because he thought it was suspicious. The pickup truck driver then showed the photo to officers at the scene.
Eventually, both Mauro and his mother were arrested and charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking. Police subsequently determined his mother had no involvement in the drug world and the charge against her were dropped. Cont.
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