Drug dealer sent to prison for four and a half years
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A Brandon drug dealer was sentenced to four and a half years in prison in Brandon’s Court of King’s Bench on Thursday.
Michael James McKenzie, 50, previously pleaded guilty to possession of methamphetamine and cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
The lawyers presented the joint recommendation of four and a half years, with several other orders, including that he forfeit all the items seized by police, a lifetime weapons ban and a mandatory DNA order.
Brandon Court of King's Bench. (File)
Crown attorney Hugh Crawley said McKenzie engaged in selling methamphetamine and cocaine in 2021 and primarily distributed at the street level.
At times, though, he said McKenzie sold methamphetamine in amounts approaching an ounce.
“The overall character of his trafficking would straddle that line between street-level to very low ounce-level distribution of those drugs,” Crawley said.
He said he mostly sold to people “within the Brandon subculture” who were purchasing the drugs for their own consumption.
On some occasions, he sold to people who were trafficking at an even lower street level, he said.
McKenzie agreed that those were the facts he was pleading guilty to in what the Crown described as a “plea negotiation.”
The matter has been before the court since 2022.
Justice Elliot Leven accepted the joint recommendation and said, “The courts are always pleased when people are able to talk to each other and agree on matters such as this.”
McKenzie has spent 93 days in custody, which at enhanced credit equals 140 days, making his sentence roughly four years and one month going forward.
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