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If it's not a dirty, lying OPP officer, it's a dirty RCMP officer.
No wonder our allies don't trust us and renegotiate trade deals...
Former RCMP officer sentenced in massive ivory-smuggling case
Nearly two decades after he first came to the attention of a wildlife investigator, a retired RCMP officer has been sentenced to more than five years in jail for laundering the proceeds of a massive ivory smuggling scheme that brought hundreds of narwhal tusks from Canada to the United States.
Gregory Logan, a former Mountie from Woodmans Point, N.B., was sentenced on Wednesday to a 62-month term by a U.S. District Court judge in Maine. Mr. Logan had already been convicted in Canada for the ivory smuggling, for which he got a fine and house arrest. He was then rearrested and extradited to Maine, where he was indicted for money laundering.
"Today's sentence and the previous conviction in Canada send a strong message that this type of offence will not be tolerated," Glen Ehler, a regional enforcement director at Environment Canada who had been part of the surveillance operation that led to Mr. Logan's arrest, said in a statement.
According to court filings, Mr. Logan, who served as an RCMP constable from 1978 to 2002, had once been posted in what is now Nunavut and learned that narwhal tusks could be purchased from Inuit co-operatives.
Narwhals are Arctic whales known for their long ivory tusks. They are considered a species that may be threatened with extinction and it is illegal to import their parts into the United States for commercial purposes.
In Canada, only Inuit can hunt narwhals, in limited numbers. According to Environment Canada, during some years, the tusks sold by Mr. Logan accounted for about 15 per cent of the annual Canadian hunt limit in Canada.
Mr. Logan's narwhal activities came to the attention of law enforcement in 1999 when Special Agent Dan LeClair of the U.S. Wildlife Service stationed in Ohio noticed that a local man was offering on eBay a 22-inch narwhal tusk. The tusk was seized and its owner disclosed that he had purchased it for $825 (U.S.) from Mr. Logan.
According to a prosecution memorandum, when contacted by Mr. LeClair, Mr. Logan sent faxes on RCMP letterhead to assure the American agent that the sale was legal.
No wonder our allies don't trust us and renegotiate trade deals...
Former RCMP officer sentenced in massive ivory-smuggling case
Nearly two decades after he first came to the attention of a wildlife investigator, a retired RCMP officer has been sentenced to more than five years in jail for laundering the proceeds of a massive ivory smuggling scheme that brought hundreds of narwhal tusks from Canada to the United States.
Gregory Logan, a former Mountie from Woodmans Point, N.B., was sentenced on Wednesday to a 62-month term by a U.S. District Court judge in Maine. Mr. Logan had already been convicted in Canada for the ivory smuggling, for which he got a fine and house arrest. He was then rearrested and extradited to Maine, where he was indicted for money laundering.
"Today's sentence and the previous conviction in Canada send a strong message that this type of offence will not be tolerated," Glen Ehler, a regional enforcement director at Environment Canada who had been part of the surveillance operation that led to Mr. Logan's arrest, said in a statement.
According to court filings, Mr. Logan, who served as an RCMP constable from 1978 to 2002, had once been posted in what is now Nunavut and learned that narwhal tusks could be purchased from Inuit co-operatives.
Narwhals are Arctic whales known for their long ivory tusks. They are considered a species that may be threatened with extinction and it is illegal to import their parts into the United States for commercial purposes.
In Canada, only Inuit can hunt narwhals, in limited numbers. According to Environment Canada, during some years, the tusks sold by Mr. Logan accounted for about 15 per cent of the annual Canadian hunt limit in Canada.
Mr. Logan's narwhal activities came to the attention of law enforcement in 1999 when Special Agent Dan LeClair of the U.S. Wildlife Service stationed in Ohio noticed that a local man was offering on eBay a 22-inch narwhal tusk. The tusk was seized and its owner disclosed that he had purchased it for $825 (U.S.) from Mr. Logan.
According to a prosecution memorandum, when contacted by Mr. LeClair, Mr. Logan sent faxes on RCMP letterhead to assure the American agent that the sale was legal.
