Former Blackberry manager heading returned to jail on drug ...

KITCHENER -- A Waterloo man has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for dealing medication whereas on probation.

Peter Whitby turned into arrested on November 1 right through a drug bust involving two different men.

Police discovered two kilograms of crystal meth. In bulk it's worth $forty,000 however on the street the value jumps to $a hundred and twenty,000 to $one hundred ninety,000.

His attorney, Hal Mattson, says he became stunned by means of the arrest.

"He plead guilty days after his arrest since it's obtrusive to me that he didn't have a defence."

Whitby was on probation as a result of two years ago he became arrested on separate drug prices.

right through that trial he admitted to selling cocaine to his colleagues while working as a manager at Blackberry. Police additionally discovered half a pound of cocaine right through a search of his domestic however Whitby claimed it wasn't his.

He was later sentenced to 21 months in detention center and was launched in June 2018.

Whitby now admits that while he changed into out on probation for those expenses he grew to become a delivery man for drug purchasers.

Mattson says he and a neighbour tried to help Whitby get back on his toes.

"Financially we tried to aid him out in order that the financial institution wouldn't take his condo. regrettably that's how he received into this jam. He was unemployed and became depressed. [He then] became an addict himself."

Justice John Lynch known as the condition "disappointing" and "irritating," noting that he turned into the same decide who despatched Whitby to penal complex two years in the past.

In courtroom he brought up "we be aware of that didn't work."

Whitby has been out on bail given that November's arrest and he will should spend the whole five years behind bars.