Local man pleads guilty after selling meth to undercover cops
By Peggy Revell on April 27, 2018.
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell A Medicine Hat man associated with a drug house shut down by law enforcement entered a guilty plea Thursday to trafficking methamphetamine Sentencing for Robert Hafso has been adjourned to July 18, as defence counsel requested a pre-sentencing report be put together for consideration. According to the agreed statement of facts read into court, from September to October 2016, police heard from four sources that Hafso was trafficking meth from a mobile phone number. Undercover officers arranged to purchase a quarter ounce of meth by contacting this number, with Hafso saying to meet him at a local pub. Police surveillance observed Hafso leaving 1170 Bridge St. and take a taxi to the pub, where he sent a message saying he was there. Police arrested him, and found him in possession of a quarter ounce of meth, and the phone with the same number. The Bridge Street residence was shut down in September 2017 through a Community Safety Order due to drug use and drug-related crimes. The house was resided in by Hafso and his father. The complaints to police about suspected drug activity at the property began in October 2016, Insp. Mike Letourneau with the Sheriff’s Safer Communities Neighbourhoods Unit (SCAN) told the News when the house was boarded up and required to be vacated for 90 days. The house could be occupied once the 90-day span was up, but activities are monitored as part of the year-long CSO. Hafso also entered a guilty plea for being unlawfully at large when he failed to report to the remand centre for an intermittent sentence, and a failure to appear in court. 12
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