Saskatoon drug trafficker used Canada Post to mail pot

Dale Christopher Renfrow's plan to mail drugs from Calgary to Saskatoon worked. At least until the box, with five kilograms of marijuana, got to Saskatoon.

The pot parcel cracked open in a Canada Post sorting station in February 2012. Police were called and a non-drug-filled box was substituted, then the parcel sent on its way.

Police arrested Renfrow, then studying at the University of Saskatchewan, and charged him with trafficking. Officers also recovered a loaded .357 Magnum handgun.

Renfrow pleaded guilty in provincial court this morning to trafficking and possessing the handgun.

He was sentenced to one year, time served, on the weapons charge. He was given a conditional sentence of just under a year, to be served in the community, on the trafficking charge.