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An Ottawa man was sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to gun-running as part of a local arms ring ensnared in a police sting operation.
Luke McCormick, 25, surrounded by family and supporters, stood to face Justice Trevor Brown before he was escorted from the courtroom by Ottawa police.
Justice Brown called the sentence “shocking and crushing” for the father of a young child, but called it the “proper sentence in the public interest.”
Crown attorney Julian Daller, who prosecuted the case along with federal Crown Colleen Liggett, said McCormick should be commended for his “turnaround since the charges.”
A convincing letter of remorse filed with the court, the strong support of his family, McCormick’s guilty plea and his lack of a prior criminal record were considered mitigating factors in the sentence, which was proposed jointly by the Crown and defence counsel Sean May.
“You owe it to them (your family) to come back out on the clean side,” said Justice Brown.
McCormick was “the runner of guns, not the mastermind,” the judge said, in an illegal arms trafficking scheme feeding “the scourge of gun violence in this city… a real menace to our society.”
McCormick, along with his three co-accused, were charged in July 2016 at the close of a months-long surveillance operation centered on a storage facility on Carling Avenue.
The company alerted police to a large storage locker being rented with false identification, and police identified the owner, Zack Dickie, as an alias for McCormick.
Police also tied the same owner to a second locker at a storage facility on Walkley Road. Police set up surveillance, and watched McCormick visit the locker 16 times in the seven months leading to his arrest. He often brought hockey bags with him.
Police later executed a covert search warrant and discovered one bag contained a loaded Smith & Wesson handgun. Police later learned the gun had been stolen from a Dec. 2015 break-and-enter.
A second search warrant for the Walkley storage locker turned up a loaded Uzi submachine gun wrapped in a curtain and stashed in a gym bag.
Police found a shoebox with 1,254 rounds of ammunition nearby.
They also found a semi-automatic handgun and a bag with eight grams of crack cocaine.
McCormick pleaded guilty to seven charges, including three weapons possession and trafficking charges, drug charges and impersonation. Those sentences will be served concurrently.
Crown prosecutor Julian Daller said while McCormick did not himself engage in violence, his actions “feed in directly to the sad state our city has found itself in.”
Daller noted two straight years of a record-setting escalation in gun violence in the city, a trend he said is “facilitated” by the illegal gun trade.
Justice Brown ordered McCormick to provide a DNA sample to the national databank, to avoid contact with his co-accused, and ordered a lifetime ban from owning restricted or prohibited weapons.
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Luke McCormick, 25, surrounded by family and supporters, stood to face Justice Trevor Brown before he was escorted from the courtroom by Ottawa police.
Justice Brown called the sentence “shocking and crushing” for the father of a young child, but called it the “proper sentence in the public interest.”
Crown attorney Julian Daller, who prosecuted the case along with federal Crown Colleen Liggett, said McCormick should be commended for his “turnaround since the charges.”
A convincing letter of remorse filed with the court, the strong support of his family, McCormick’s guilty plea and his lack of a prior criminal record were considered mitigating factors in the sentence, which was proposed jointly by the Crown and defence counsel Sean May.
“You owe it to them (your family) to come back out on the clean side,” said Justice Brown.
McCormick was “the runner of guns, not the mastermind,” the judge said, in an illegal arms trafficking scheme feeding “the scourge of gun violence in this city… a real menace to our society.”
McCormick, along with his three co-accused, were charged in July 2016 at the close of a months-long surveillance operation centered on a storage facility on Carling Avenue.
The company alerted police to a large storage locker being rented with false identification, and police identified the owner, Zack Dickie, as an alias for McCormick.
Police also tied the same owner to a second locker at a storage facility on Walkley Road. Police set up surveillance, and watched McCormick visit the locker 16 times in the seven months leading to his arrest. He often brought hockey bags with him.
Police later executed a covert search warrant and discovered one bag contained a loaded Smith & Wesson handgun. Police later learned the gun had been stolen from a Dec. 2015 break-and-enter.
A second search warrant for the Walkley storage locker turned up a loaded Uzi submachine gun wrapped in a curtain and stashed in a gym bag.
Police found a shoebox with 1,254 rounds of ammunition nearby.
They also found a semi-automatic handgun and a bag with eight grams of crack cocaine.
McCormick pleaded guilty to seven charges, including three weapons possession and trafficking charges, drug charges and impersonation. Those sentences will be served concurrently.
Crown prosecutor Julian Daller said while McCormick did not himself engage in violence, his actions “feed in directly to the sad state our city has found itself in.”
Daller noted two straight years of a record-setting escalation in gun violence in the city, a trend he said is “facilitated” by the illegal gun trade.
Justice Brown ordered McCormick to provide a DNA sample to the national databank, to avoid contact with his co-accused, and ordered a lifetime ban from owning restricted or prohibited weapons.
ahelmer@postmedia.com
Twitter.com/helmera
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