Langley drug smuggler loses appeal in case of multi-million dollar brick of fentanyl
The court said police had reasonable grounds to arrest Dinh and ruled that excluding nearly 1 kilogram of fentanyl would undermine justice.
- The B.C. Court of Appeal upheld Hong Carrie Dinh's 2023 drug trafficking conviction, dismissing her appeal and confirming her eight-year prison sentence.
- On May 3, 2019, Dinh traveled to a Langley parking lot for a drug exchange, where RCMP officers stopped her vehicle following a CrimeStoppers tip and seized a brick of fentanyl.
- The seized brick of fentanyl was valued between $5 million and $9 million by Justice Gordon Weatherill, who noted it could yield between 200,000 and 600,000 individual doses.
- Although police violated Dinh's Charter rights by delaying her access to a lawyer, Justice Margot Fleming ruled that excluding the evidence would bring the administration of justice into disrepute.
- Dinh's legal team argued the parking lot interaction was innocuous and challenged the warrantless arrest, but the court rejected these arguments and she will continue serving her eight-year sentence.
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Langley drug smuggler loses appeal in case of multi-million dollar brick of fentanyl
A woman convicted of smuggling a brick of fentanyl worth millions of dollars from Langley to Vancouver Island has failed to overturn her conviction in the B.C. Court of Appeal. Hong “Carrie” Dinh was convicted of a single count of possession of fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking in 2023, and sentenced to up to eight years in prison. On May 3, 2019, Dinh took the ferry from Swartz Bay to Tsawassen and drove to Langley, where she met with the…
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