Conspiring to bring a kilogram of cocaine from Alberta to Saskatoon has landed a member of the Fallen Saints Motorcycle Club with a four-year prison sentence after he was caught in a massive police investigation called Project Forseti.
In secretly recorded conversations from March 2014, Bradley Carl Mann agreed to go to Alberta to test the cocaine. If it was high quality, he would ensure the suppliers got their money and that the drugs came back to Saskatoon, court heard during Mann’s sentencing in Court of Queen’s Bench last month.
Federal Crown prosecutor Lynn Hintz said another Fallen Saints member, Justin Murray Smith, had earlier ordered a kilogram of cocaine into Saskatoon, but it was returned to Alberta when he wasn’t able to pay for it. Smith then offered the drugs to Noel Harder, a Fallen Saints member and known drug dealer who became a police agent on Project Forseti.
Harder discussed the deal with Mann and another man named Denis Selskiy in his truck on March 25, 2014. When Harder was caught with guns three days later, he agreed to work with police and told them what happened with the cocaine, Hintz said.
Although the original suppliers brought the cocaine back to Saskatoon, surveillance video at Harder’s business shows Mann drive up in Harder’s work truck, leave the vehicle keys in a mailbox and walk away. Harder later retrieved the kilogram of cocaine that was left in the truck, according to the agreed facts presented in court.
Mann, 38, pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to traffic cocaine. The four-year sentence was jointly proposed by the Crown and defence lawyer Chris Lavier.
Court heard Mann was a truck driver, but hopes to take job training in prison and distance himself from his previous lifestyle.
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