Former Winnipeg police officer Elston Bostock has pleaded guilty to trafficking drugs over a period of years — both to civilians and other police officers.

Bostock, who worked with the Winnipeg Police Service for more than two decades before being removed from the force, admitted to selling drugs including cocaine and psilocybin between 2016 and 2024 in a Winnipeg courtroom Monday.

Bostock admitted he trafficked drugs while on duty as a uniformed police officer, in the parking lots of police stations and from his police vehicle, federal Crown attorney Janna Hyman read from an agreed statement of facts.

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[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 months ago

Hyman said there was no evidence Bostock was motivated by profit, and called his drug trafficking “akin to social trafficking to friends and colleagues.”

No civilian would ever be able to use that excuse.

As always, ACAB.

[–] bluebadoo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Also buried the lead on this:

He previously pleaded guilty to a number of other charges linked to that probe, after admitting to getting traffic tickets voided in exchange for liquor and gift cards; stealing cannabis from a police scene; sharing confidential police information, and sending lewd texts about a photo he took of the nearly naked body of a woman who had fatally overdosed

What a piece of shit.

[–] HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah. Winnipeg has issues with its police force.

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

It should genuinely be like, 4x the sentence if you're caught doing this shit as a cop.