Niagara Regional Police executed a warrant at Enjoyable Guyz in St. Paul Road in downtown St. Catharines in March 2023
A person who labored at a magic mushroom dispensary in downtown St. Catharines, an unlawful enterprise described by a choose as “egregious and infamous”, has been granted a conditional discharge.
Choose Andrew Brown mentioned Philip Garcia had “diminished culpability” as he was not the mastermind of the operation, however merely the one worker behind the counter when police raided Enjoyable Guyz within the spring of 2023.
“I can’t reduce the price to our neighborhood when drug sellers create storefront operations to promote unlawful substances,” Brown mentioned within the Ontario Court docket of Justice in St. Catherine Friday.
“I additionally word that on this, and maybe different instances, the owner-operators haven’t been recognized or charged.
“It’s potential that owner-operators select to rent folks with no prison file and who’re in any other case of fine character, recognizing that these seen storefront operations are doomed to draw police consideration and be shut down earlier than lengthy.”
The choose mentioned that it’s potential that the accused, and others like him, are “merely grist for the mill for these operators”.
“In different phrases, a price to owner-operators of doing enterprise,” he mentioned.
