Former Hells Angels of the Quebec chapter now a member of the New Brunswick Nomads, Emery Martin, was sentenced Monday to seven and a half years in prison for conspiring to traffic cocaine and gangsterism, announced the Royal Canadian Mounted Police of New Brunswick.
The Crown was asking for eight years for Martin, but the Bathurst judge who convicted the biker reduced his sentence to six months because of his harsh prison conditions.
However, by subtracting the period of time spent in preventive detention, which is calculated in time and a half, Martin has about two and a half years left to serve.
It was last June that Martin pleaded guilty to the charges against him.
He was arrested in June 2018 in the wake of two investigations dubbed J-Thunder and J-Thunderstruck, carried out by the serious and organized crime divisions of the New Brunswick RCMP, with the help of investigators from the National organized crime repression squad (ENRCO) led by the Sûreté du Québec.
These investigations targeted networks active in the Acadian peninsula and the counties of Restigouche, Madawaska and Victoria, according to a press release from the RCMP.
During their investigations, the sleuths seized more than five kilograms of cocaine and more than $ 900,000 in Canadian money.
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Part of the money seized during the investigations.
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Kilograms of cocaine seized during RCMP investigations.
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Emery Martin, who is from Sainte-Anne-de-Madawasca, New Brunswick, was sentenced to 15 years in prison in 2015 after pleading guilty to a reduced count of conspiracy to murder in the wake of Operation SharQc carried out by the SQ against the Hells Angels in April 2009.
He was also sentenced to ten years in prison in 1997 for conspiracy and possession of narcotics.
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