COP AIDED POT THEFT, COURT TOLD

Drug Unit Officer Faces Charges Next Month

BARRIE -- A Peterborough man, charged with an undercover OPP officer
who allegedly used police helicopters to spot marijuana fields and
leak the information, was sentenced to two years in jail yesterday.
Jody Procter, 25, of Peterborough pleaded guilty to conspiring to
traffic marijuana and breach of probation.

OPP Det. Const. Scott Duguid, 32, a member of the Huronia Combined
Drug Enforcement Unit, also appeared briefly yesterday on similar
charges but they were not dealt with.

In an agreed statement of facts in Procter's case, it was stated that
police intercepted calls between Duguid, Procter and Procter's
brother, Jamie, 27, in September while Jamie was a prisoner at
Warkworth Institution.

The statement of facts said in several conversations, Procter told his
brother that Duguid gave him longitude and latitude directions to pot
fields Duguid was supposed to find and destroy. The brothers discussed
how they would harvest the fields and estimated they would make
$250,000 to $500,000.

The statement said on Sept. 20, the OPP began surveillance of Duguid
and in his vehicle found the co-ordinates of three marijuana grow
operations as well as the co-ordinates of a vehicle submerged in a
lake.

Later, Duguid was seen meeting the brothers in Schomberg, the
statement said. The Proctors were arrested after they left and police
found GPS co-ordinates identical to those found in Duguid's vehicle
and a GPS receiver.

The statement of facts said when Jamie Proctor was arrested he told
police he was looking for grow fields in the Barrie area and Duguid
had provided him with some tips.

Duguid and Procter's brother are due back in court Dec. 17.