
Well, here is some info on crack and freebase cocaine. I'v never delt with the stuff so I'm no expert. I think it's baking powder or baking soda. He says it is often cut with baby laxative and that is why sometimes you have to shit right after doing a line. I don't do coke any more but I am having a debate with a friend. He declined to address the court when offered a chance to speak.What is cocaine usually cut with. “You’re creating a situation that places not only yourself, but other members of the public in a dangerous situation,” she said.ĭanto, who came to Canada from Sudan with family in 2003 and ultimately became a Canadian citizen, had no prior record. “You are voluntarily putting yourself in the middle of a dangerous drug-trafficking subculture,” said Lord, chiding Danto for failing to realize his deception could have spurred serious violence. The crack was later discovered by police to be balls of wax. “At the end of the day, we know that ‘drug rips’ are extremely serious,” said Lafreniere.ĭanto and a youth co-accused were nabbed Apafter street crime investigators set up a fake drug buy through a ‘dial-a-dealer’ enterprise the two were involved in.Īfter some brief haggling because the caller was an unfamiliar client, a meet was set to take place outside a Safeway store in Tuxedo where the plainclothes cop traded $100 for six individually wrapped pieces of crack, court heard.Īfter the deal was conducted, Danto and the youth were quickly collared by a police surveillance team covertly watching the entire incident from nearby.

The Crown pointed to a historical Supreme Court of Canada case where a dealer who had fobbed off fake drugs as real was murdered right after the deception was discovered.

“One of the most dangerous causes of violence in the drug world is drug rip-offs - when one side doesn’t honour its pledge to the other in order to gain an advantage,” said federal Crown attorney Mark Lafreniere. Manage Print Subscription / Tax ReceiptĪs if the life of a novice crack dealer weren’t dangerous enough, George Madut Danto took the implied risks going along with the illegal trade to a new level by pawning off candle wax as rocks of crack cocaine to a customer.Īnd it’s probably a good thing - or so say federal prosecutors - that the client Danto ripped off was actually an undercover Winnipeg cop.ĭanto, 20, pleaded guilty Thursday to a single drug-trafficking count and was sentenced by Judge Tracey Lord to serve nine months in provincial jail.
