After saying he took full responsibility for his role in a drug trafficking and auto theft operation, Darrell Nurse was sentenced to a lengthy spell in prison.
Nurse, 54, was arrested in 2012, after police pulled him over while he was driving a stolen truck.
Inside the truck was crystal meth, Fentanyl patches and $5,000 in cash, as well as a homemade bomb which police did not initially discover.
Two months later, Nurse’s operation – which, court heard, was based at a Kitchener car wash but extended as far as eastern Ontario – was the subject of a massive police raid dubbed Project Noex.
Police believed Nurse was the main supplier of methamphetamine for Waterloo Region.
Nearly 30 properties were searched, with drugs, weapons, vehicles and cash seized.
Nurse was sentenced to two prison sentences of nine years apiece, to be served concurrently.
