Convicted fentanyl dealer given probation

A Provincial Court judge has ignored a B.C. Court of Appeal directive and given a 21-year-old dial-a-dope fentanyl dealer a suspended sentence with three years’ probation instead of jail time.
The Crown argued there were no special circumstances, and Ajay Joon of North Vancouver deserved two years less a day in prison.
Judge Joanne Challenger in 2006.
Judge Joanne Challenger’s decision to spare the rod undercut the tough-nosed message of the appellate justices, who wanted much stiffe