Pubdate: Wed, 10 Aug 2005
Source: Barrie Examiner (CN ON)
Copyright: 2005, Osprey Media Group Inc.
Contact:  http://www.thebarrieexaminer.com/
Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/2317
Author: Tracy McLaughlin

OFFICER PLEADS GUILTY TO BREACH OF TRUST

An undercover OPP officer was being wire tapped when he chatted on the
telephone with an inmate of Warkworth prison and told the prisoner about
hidden marijuana fields, a court heard yesterday.

Det. Const. Scott Duguid, 35, of Phelpston, who was in charge of searching
out and destroying marijuana grow operations in Simcoe County, plead guilty
to breach of trust. His sentencing hearing is set for next June in Barrie.

Duguid, who is suspended from duty, was an officer with the Huronia Combined
Forces Drug Unit in Sept. 2003 when he was caught supplying the longitude
and latitude coordinates for marijuana fields in Simcoe County to two men
who would use Global Position Systems (GPS) to find and harvest the crop
before police moved in.

The scam was discovered inadvertently when police decided to intercept phone
calls while Jamie Procter, 25, of Peterborough, was in prison because he was
suspected of smuggling drugs into the jail. During those calls Procter
discussed various marijuana locations with Duguid.

In one of the intercepted calls, Procter talked about how he had to cross a
creek in his underwear to get to the marijuana.

"I had to swim across it in my boxers and pull the shit and put it in
industrial garbage bags and swim back," he said.

In another intercepted phone call between Proctor and his brother, the men
discussed how they could not get hold of Duguid because he was "out in the
bush chopping" down marijuana plants in fields being destroyed by the OPP.

In another call Proctor discussed another heist where one helper got stung
by bees several times when they moved in on one of Duguid's locations. 
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