Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Meghan Forhan The Facts: Ms. Forhan’s client reported that he was being harassed by police and being constantly pulled over for no reason. During one of these “random” stops, police searched the client’s vehicle and found cocaine, an extendable baton with a tazer [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Meghan Forhan The Facts: Client was pulled over for a routine traffic stop. During the stop, police conducted an illegal search of his vehicle on the premise of looking for his driver’s license when the client failed to produce identification. The client was strip [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Meghan Forhan The Facts: Client attended a local music festival, Faded in the Park, where he sold MDMA to an undercover police officer. Client was arrested and charged with PPT. Ms. Forhan assessed the police disclosure and confirmed that there had been no breaches [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Meghan Forhan The Facts: Client was caught consuming cocaine in the bathroom of a club in Whistler, BC. When approached by security staff, the client impersonated a police officer with a badge he had on his person. The client was removed from the club and [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Cathryn Moore The Facts: The client, who was represented by different counsel at the sentencing hearing, was sentenced to 6 months jail for trafficking cocaine. Cathryn Moore was retained for the sentencing appeal. She successfully argued that a suspended sentence, [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Joel Whysall The Facts: Police were called to the Toronto Airport and met with airport employees who had discovered three brick shaped packages of cocaine in checked luggage. A second bag was also checked with a further four brick shaped packages of cocaine. The total [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Meghan Forhan Facts: The client had been arrested in Manitoba during an attempted delivery of 4 liters of GHB. She was delivering the drugs for her boyfriend who was a mid-level trafficker. Meghan Forhan had the file transferred from Manitoba to British Columbia for [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Joel Whysall The Facts: Police conducted an undercover operation targeting dial-a-dope drug operation. Undercover officer purchasing heroin and fentanyl from passenger in vehicle driven by accused. Surveillance continued, and accused was observed carrying out 16 more [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Joel Whysall The Facts: Accused client arrested following a search warrant on his commercial agricultural property. Found on the property was approximately 15,900 marijuana plants in excess of the 989 authorized under the MMAR to be grown at that location. Also found [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Meghan Forhan The Facts: Accused arrested outside a nightclub in Whistler, BC for possession of cocaine. Accused was arrested for being belligerent and passing out at the front of the establishment, upon arrest a baggie of cocaine was located in his shirt pocket. [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Joel Whysall The Facts: The RCMP obtained a search warrant to search the home of the Accused. The RCMP executed the search warrant and found 1 kilogram of Cocaine in the accused’s home. Result: After Joel Whysall had discussions with the Crown Counsel all charges were [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Joel Whysall The Facts: The accused was stopped and searched by Vancouver police officers investigating a complaint about a threatening with a knife. The first police officer frisked the accused and discovered marihuana. A second police officer conducted a more [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Cathryn Moore The Facts: The accused was caught using cocaine outside of a Whistler nightclub by the Whistler RCMP. Result: The charges were dropped against the accused. Ms. Waker persuaded the Crown that, in the circumstances, there was no public interest in [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Joel Whysall The Facts: The accused the registered owner of the vehicle but was in the passenger seat. The officer stopped the vehicle for not having an “N” displayed. The officers alleged they smelled marihuana in the vehicle and arrested the accused and the driver [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Joel Whysall The Facts: The accused was in their vehicle and the officer noted that the accused was seen talking to a man on the sidewalk through the passenger window of his car. The officer alleged that the accused was blocking access to a parking lot and he went up [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Joel Whysall The Facts: The accused was arrested after officer saw from a distance what looked to be a drug deal. The officer arrested the accused and searched him on the spot including checking his underwear. The officer demanded that he hand over the drugs, in which [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Joel Whysall The Facts: The accused sold ecstasy to an undercover police officer at a rave. Result: The accused received a conditional discharge, meaning no criminal record, on the basis that he had no criminal record and that the submissions provided to the court [...]
Vancouver Criminal Lawyer: Joel Whysall The Facts: The accused was a passenger in a vehicle pulled over for careless driving when travelling from Vancouver to Calgary. After receiving questionable identification from the accused, the police officer searched the trunk of the vehicle and found [...]
