Nearly five years after he was arrested during a cocaine trafficking investigation in Yellowknife, a man has been convicted of a related charge.
In NWT Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon, Malcolm Glen Anderson, 54, pleaded guilty to one count of possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking on April 2, 2019.
Prosecutor Brendan Green said the Crown planned to stay an additional charge of possessing property obtained by crime. He said the prosecution would also be withdrawing charges filed against Anderson in 2022, following the search of the hotel room where he was then living.
Anderson, along with David Payne, was initially charged in April 2019, after RCMP searched his Sunridge Place apartment where Payne was also staying at the time.
According to an agreed statement of facts, police had been surveilling the apartment following tips from two confidential informants. After obtaining a warrant to search the unit, they found cocaine, drug paraphernalia, cell phones and cash inside.
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Anderson admitted to joint possession of the cocaine found in a safe in Payne’s room.
Payne, 70, had pleaded guilty to one count of possessing cocaine for the purpose of trafficking and was sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment in August 2022. An additional charge of possessing property obtained by crime was stayed.
Anderson is set to be sentenced on March 14.
