Air force student charged in major online gun-trafficking bust: Cops

[krustyrl]

BARRIE, Ont. — A Royal Canadian Air Force student from Quebec faces dozens of firearm charges after police on both sides of the border busted what they're calling a major online gun-trafficking ring based at CFB Borden, north of Toronto.

Police from five departments presented their findings from their year-long investigation Tuesday morning. They say the gun and gun-enhancement manufacturing and distribution ring reached across five continents.

More at link.

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2013/04/23/20763206.html

 

[Jarnhamar]

Career firing, career firing, career stops!

(I know I used that one already but it REALLY fits here)

 

[PMedMoe]

Theriault is a private who was training to be an aircraft technician in the Canadian Forces' aerospace engineering officer program and has been living at CFB Borden since 2007.

I wonder if he was living in Borden before he joined the CF.  If not.... 

 

[Loachman]

The full article, as it will disappear from the site soon:

Air force student charged in major online gun-trafficking bust: Cops

By Cheryl Browne, QMI Agency

BARRIE, Ont. - A Royal Canadian Air Force student from Quebec faces dozens of firearm charges after police on both sides of the border busted what they're calling a major online gun-trafficking ring based at CFB Borden, north of Toronto.

Police from five departments presented their findings from their year-long investigation Tuesday morning. They say the gun and gun-enhancement manufacturing and distribution ring reached across five continents.

Police said they seized more than 200 guns, thousands of rounds of ammunition, silencers, as well as devices that could make semi-automatic guns fully automatic and other devices that could allow a gun to use a magazine that holds more rounds, police said.

David Theriault, 36, of Lyster, Que., faces multiple counts of several gun offences including importing or exporting and trafficking firearms and firearm components.

Theriault is a private who was training to be an aircraft technician in the Canadian Forces' aerospace engineering officer program and has been living at CFB Borden since 2007.

He also faces 44 charges in the U.S. for allegedly importing machine guns without a licence and smuggling.

Theriault was arrested last August and will make an appearance in a Barrie court May 2.

The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives launched the investigation because it suspected Theriault was responsible for selling guns, ammunition and gun enhancements over the Internet. The bureau contacted the Ontario Provincial Police and the investigation that followed expanded and led to another six arrests in Quebec, several as late as last week.

cheryl.browne@sunmedia.ca

 

[Colin Parkinson]

"gun-enhancement manufacturing"
"other devices that could allow a gun to use a magazine that holds more rounds, police said. "

Sigh who writes this garbage  :

 

[smale436]

I wonder if he was living in Borden before he joined the CF.  If not.... 

I left Borden in 2007 but based on conversations with recent arrivals from CFSATE the PAT Platoon wait times are not THAT long.

 

[Danjanou]

"gun-enhancement manufacturing"
"other devices that could allow a gun to use a magazine that holds more rounds, police said. "

Yup high tech stuff there

 

[Quirky]

The full article, as it will disappear from the site soon:

Theriault is a private who was training to be an aircraft technician in the Canadian Forces' aerospace engineering officer program and has been living at CFB Borden since 2007.

Officers as aircraft technicians? 

 

[Loachman]

Just typical reporting. Journalists seldom understand the subjects of their scribblings, and many do not care to.

 

[The Bread Guy]

Another reminder:

Under Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms, "any person charged with an offence has the right .... to be presumed innocent until proven guilty according to law in a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal"​

 

[The Bread Guy]

Bumped with the latest:

A former Canadian soldier was sentenced Tuesday to six years in prison for operating a weapons trafficking business that distributed high-powered assault weapons and machine guns throughout Canada and the U.S.

David Theriault, 37, of Lyster, Que., pleaded guilty to 21 charges, including possession and trafficking of weapons. Several more charges he faced in the U.S were dropped as part of his plea deal.

He is also prohibited from owning firearms for 20 years.

"The geographic scope of this is huge," Justice Nancy Dawson said in her sentencing. "It is not known if any of these weapons were used to commit a robbery or a homicide, but that really is a matter of luck."

Theriault, a private, was stationed at Canadian Forces Base Borden, about 100 km north of Toronto, and graduated as an aviation technician.

A Ontario Provincial Police officer purchased a switch designed by Theriault that could convert a firearm into a machine gun capable of firing 1,200 rounds per minute. Theriault was seen by OPP surveillance officers shipping the package at a Canada Post office in Borden.

A search of his barracks room, his locker and his parents' home in Quebec turned up a huge stash of assault weapons, machine guns and weapons parts, as well as records of sale.

( .... )

Theriault was paid by the military during the three years he spent in jail -- but that all changed once he entered his guilty plea. He must now repay $123,000, part of which will come out of his remaining benefits.

He must also pay a $42,000 fine within three years after he is released ....

 

[Lightguns]

Quite a shame, he sounds like a very talented individual.  That fork in the road between right and wrong is so very hard to see. 

 

[The Bread Guy]

Quite a shame, he sounds like a very talented individual.  That fork in the road between right and wrong is so very hard to see.

And sometimes even harder to choose ....