DRUG COP FED INFO TO 'HARVESTERS'

A police officer, who co-ordinated a program to wipe out marijuana outdoor
grow operations, fed information about the location of the crops to two men
so that they could harvest the pot before police raids, a court has heard.

Ontario Provincial Police Det. Const. Scott Duguid, 34, pled guilty in the
Ontario Court of Justice Tuesday to breach of trust in connection with
incidents in Simcoe County in August and September 2003.

In an agreed statement of facts read into court by Federal Crown Attorney
Stephane Marinier, court heard Duguid, an eight-year member of the OPP, was
transferred to the Huronia Combined Force Drug Enforcement Unit in 2000.
There he took on the role of managing the program to 'search and destroy'
outdoor marijuana grow-ops. He often rode along in the OPP helicopter.

Police intercepted calls between Duguid, Jody Proctor, 27 and his brother
Jamie Proctor, 27, who at the time was a prisoner at the Warkworth
Institution. In conversations caught on tape Jody Proctor told his brother
that Duguid had given the longitude and latitude directions to marijuana
fields. The brothers discussed harvesting the crops and estimated they
could make between $250,000 and $500,000 on one of the larger sites.

In another taped conversation, the Proctors talk about Duguid agreeing to
delay the police raid on the larger site to allow time for Jody Proctor to
locate the crop and harvest it. The brothers also make references to paying
Duguid $1,000 for helping them, but state at least twice that he doesn't
seem interested in the money.

An email, sent by Duguid's supervisor listing the co-ordinates for three
marijuana sites, was found in Duguid's vehicle when the OPP began
surveillance of Duguid in September 2003.

Police found those co-ordinates written in Duguid's handwriting on a piece
of paper from Duguid's notebook in Jody Proctor's vehicle, along with a
Global Positioning System with the same co-ordinates programmed into the
memory.

The Proctors were arrested Sept. 23, 2003, four days after Jamie Proctor
was released from prison. Jody Proctor pled guilty in November 2003 to
conspiring to traffic marijuana and was sentenced to two years in jail.
Jamie Proctor received an 18-month sentence for the same offence. Duguid,
who had been recommended for promotion and had just sat his sergeant's
exams, passing with the third highest marks in the province, when he was
arrested, was suspended with pay pending the outcome of the case.

A four-day sentencing hearing for Duguid is scheduled to start June 19, 2006.