An Ontario judge has sentenced a man to house arrest in a “covert scheme” to traffic handguns into Canada from the United States. Emerson Wright, 29, was charged with conspiring with his childhood friend to traffic firearms and possessing a firearm for the purpose of transferring it while knowingly not being authorized to do so. On his first day of trial in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Wright pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic in a firearm. “Although the gravity of this offence highlights the need for punishment, it is not so pressing as to make incarceration the only option,” Justice Kelly Tranquilli wrote in a recent sentencing decision out of London, Ont. The Crown “submits a fit sentence remains at a penitentiary range of three years custody,” said the decision.
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