SUSPECT IN DRUG CASE HAD ACCESS TO MOST OF UNIVERSITY, COURT TOLD

(Calgary) -- A drug-making suspect who worked at a federal government
lab and testified in court as a chemistry expert under a false name
had access to 95% of the doors at the University of Alberta, a court
heard yesterday.

"This accused is a master con man," Crown prosecutor Janice Darling
told a bail hearing for Douglas Robert Garland yesterday.

Garland, 39, faces nearly a dozen charges, including possession of
master keys and lock picks capable of gaining him access to nearly all
of the university, said Darling.

Garland assumed a dead Alberta boy's identity and worked for six years
at a federally funded laboratory in Vancouver before his true identity
was revealed, the court heard.

Garland even was called to testify in court as a chemistry expert
under his false name, court was told.

Garland fled Calgary before a preliminary inquiry was set to begin in
March Garland was arrested in Richmond, B.C., this spring. He faces
two drug-trafficking charges in connection with the production of
methamphetamine and methaqualone.

Justice Ross McBain ordered Garland detained.