A man who sold undercover police $15 worth of fentanyl will spend two years in prison after being convicted in B.C. Supreme Court.
Milad Faud Herbert was convicted on one count of trafficking in fentanyl in March and sentenced May 18, according to Justice Kenneth Ball’s decision released July 9.
“Fentanyl has been described as a scourge on our civilization,” Ball said. “If someone had used it as methamphetamine, they would likely be dead today, given that the ingestion of a very small amount of fentanyl can be fatal.”
Moreover, Ball said an aggravating factor in the case was that Herbert apparently did not know what he was selling.
“This is because he was represented the substance he was selling as methamphetamine,” Ball said.
It was on Feb. 12, 2020 that undercover officers were attempting to purchase illicit drugs at a Surrey SkyTrain station, a known drug sale area.
An officer approached Herbert and said he was looking for "20 hard," a reference to $20 worth of crack cocaine.
The man responded he did not have hard but instead offered “side,” a reference to methamphetamine. The officer said the amount seemed small and offered $15, which was accepted.
Testing showed the contents of the purchased folded paper was fentanyl.
