Two years for woman guilty of drug trafficking charges
By Peggy Revell on March 28, 2018.
prevell@medicinehatnews.com @MHNprevell A Medicine Hat woman entered guilty pleas to drug trafficking Tuesday, earning her a two-year sentence in the federal penitentiary. According to the agreed statement of facts, Isabelle Gallant sold drugs to an undercover police officer on three occasions — 0.2 grams of meth for $80, 2.24 grams of meth for $300, and 0.5 grams of cocaine for $60 — in March and April of 2016. The two-year sentence was part of a joint sentence between the Federal Crown and defence counsel. Gallant also entered a guilty plea to uttering a forged document following a failed attempt to get her dog out from the pound. The facts alleged are that in January, Gallant’s pitbull was taken into holding by the Alberta Pound and Rescue Centre. The dog had bitten a person, and so had to be held for 10 days as there was no proof that the dog had its rabies vaccination. APARC received an email from an individual with documents from a veterinarian’s office in Taber that claimed the dog did indeed have its shots. Suspicious, the APARC employee contacted the vet’s office and discovered that the dog had never been there for its shots, but had been booked in for vaccination at a later date. The copy turned out to be the rabies vaccination information for the emailer’s own dog, with information whited out and re-written in to appear as though it was for Gallant’s dog. Upon arrest, police found 1.24 grams of meth in Gallant’s possession. For this, Gallant was sentenced to 60 days concurrent to the federal drug trafficking charges. An additional seven days will be served concurrently, as on March 4 a search of her cell at the Remand Centre found 0.2 grams of meth. 10
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