Charges against four men from the Greater Toronto Area (GTA) accused of discreetly flying cannabis into the U.S. using a private helicopter have been dropped.
CTV News reports that all charges were stayed by the Crown in December 2020. Brian Greenspan, representing the accused, told CTV he believes the charges were stayed due to a problem with a search warrant.
Per Steps to Justice, charges are stayed when a judge or a Crown decides that it would be bad for the justice system for the case to continue.
The investigation began in April 2019, when a U.S. Border Patrol agent observed a helicopter hovering above a parking lot in New York’s Beaver Island State Park, about a kilometre from Fort Erie, Ont.
A search of the area revealed four duffel bags stuffed with cannabis, with a total weight of about
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