This is a reverse onus judicial interim release (bail) hearing for FMD, charged with conspiracy to traffic cocaine and unlawfully import and traffic firearms across the Windsor-Detroit international border.
The Crown presented extensive audio and audio/video intercepted evidence from Project Kirby, a police investigation involving a paid police agent and undercover officers operating a covert store.
The evidence demonstrated FMD's role as the orchestrator and organizer of a sophisticated criminal enterprise involving multiple cocaine transactions totaling over 1.5 pounds and the trafficking of operational handguns.
The court found the Crown's case overwhelmingly strong and detained FMD on all three grounds: primary (flight risk), secondary (public protection), and tertiary (public confidence in the administration of justice).
