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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Uptown Drug Dealer Sentenced

A 38 year old Cobourg Street man, Brian Anthony Mercer has been sentenced to 5 years in prison for dealing crack cocaine. 

The court was told an apartment on King Street East was used as a stash house from where Police seized a .357 magnum along with ammunition. 

The court heard 19 thousand dollars worth of crack cocaine and 48 hundred dollars worth of marijuana were confiscated. 

Mercer had a switchblade on him when arrested as part of Operation Crackdown and his criminal record dates back to 1993.