Pubdate: Tue, 20 Jun 2006
Source: Toronto Sun (CN ON)
Copyright: 2006, Canoe Limited Partnership.
Contact:  http://torontosun.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/457
Author: Tracy Mclaughlin, Toronto Sun
Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/mjcn.htm (Cannabis - Canada)
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DRUG COP 'HAD TO' SNORT COKE

BARRIE -- An undercover OPP officer who infiltrated the  Hells Angels 
crack-cocaine trade was forced to snort  cocaine by the suspicious 
bikers and eventually became  addicted to drugs, a defence lawyer 
charged yesterday.

"It was an extremely dangerous life," lawyer Henry  Black said at the 
sentencing hearing for OPP Det.  Const. Scott Duguid.

Duguid, 35, of Phelpston, pleaded guilty to breach of  trust after he 
was caught supplying the co-ordinates of  marijuana fields to a crook 
who harvested the crop  before police moved in.

During the hearing, Black described the bizarre world  in which 
Duguid lived undercover in Barrie and played a  stranger to his own 
wife and children, who lived  nearby.

Using two covers -- one, a seller of high-end stolen  clothing, the 
other, a seller of stolen cars to Saudi  Arabia --Duguid worked 100 
hours a week, infiltrating  the Hells Angels and hanging out in 
Barrie bars to  infiltrate the Jamaican crack trade, Black said.

"This was an extremely difficult and dangerous task  because of who 
he was dealing with," Black said.

Black told the court of one incident in which a  gun-toting Hells 
Angels member laid out a line of  cocaine on the table and pointed to Duguid.

Told 'He Would Be Fine'

"He had to take these drugs," Black said. "If these  guys suspect you 
are a narc, they will shoot you with a  gun and dump your body."

Duguid, who worked alone and suffered from ulcers,  finally went to 
his OPP supervisors and asked for help.

"They told him they'd never been this close to the  Hells Angels 
before. They told him he would be fine,"  Black said.

Duguid gave the co-ordinates of the marijuana fields to  Jody Proctor 
because he was grooming him as an  informant and had to help Proctor 
get out of debt,  Black said.
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