{"id":10370,"date":"2015-10-07T12:29:21","date_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:81\/wordpress\/?p=10370"},"modified":"2015-10-07T12:29:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-07T12:29:21","slug":"trafficking-laws-pertain-to-street-and-prescription-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/trafficking-laws-pertain-to-street-and-prescription-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"Trafficking laws pertain to street and prescription drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To face criminal drug charges one need not be accused of something illegal involving street drugs. It is possible that someone could be accused of a drug crime involving prescription drugs as well. Though under certain circumstances the possession and use of these drugs is legal, trafficking them is not.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, 14 individuals from the Toronto area were charged with 120 drug charges involving oxycocet, oxycodone and fentanyl. Specifically, authorities claim those charged used personal information obtained from friends to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/14-charged-in-connection-with-trafficking-prescription-drugs-1.3242178\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">falsify prescriptions<\/a>\u00a0which were sent to pharmacies via fax. Individuals were then enlisted to pick the prescription drugs at times that were prearranged.<\/p>\n<p>The charges were preceded by an investigation that was commenced last spring. During the course of the arrests, police said they seized close to $30,000 in cash, an assault rifle, marijuana, cocaine, 318 fentanyl patches and close to 6,000 oxycodone and oxycocet pills. The estimated street-value of the drugs is $213,697.<\/p>\n<p>The charges the accused face include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firearm offences<\/li>\n<li>Possession of property obtained by crime<\/li>\n<li>Fraud<\/li>\n<li>Possession for the purpose of trafficking<\/li>\n<li class=\"last-child\">Trafficking<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In total, the accused have been charged with 120 combined offences.<\/p>\n<p>Criminal charges alone do not mean that the accused will face penalties. They are however, a sign that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/Drug-Charges\/Drug-Trafficking\/index.html\">a criminal defence lawyer should be contacted<\/a>\u00a0for assistance. A criminal defence lawyer can assess the charges and circumstances surrounding the arrest to help determine the best approach to take in building a defence. What the outcome will be for those charged in this situation, remains to be seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To face criminal drug charges one need not be accused of something illegal involving street drugs. It is possible that someone could be accused of a drug crime involving prescription drugs as well. Though under certain circumstances the possession and use of these drugs is legal, trafficking them is not. Recently, 14 individuals from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-10370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-trafficking","tag-drug-trafficking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nrlawyers.com\/chinese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}