Man arrested in Abbotsford gets 7 years for smuggling ecstasy

A Canadian man arrested after a failed ecstasy-smuggling run across the Canada—U.S. border has been sentenced to seven years.
Nathan John Hall, 41, was arrested in Abbotsford in April of 2013 after he and another smuggler tried to bring more than 20 kilograms of ecstasy into the U.S. On Friday, he was given a seven-year prison sentence at the U.S. District Court in Seattle, according to a news release from the U.S. Department of Justice.
His B.C. associate Jeffrey Laviolette was arres