British Columbia’s top court has substituted a five-year prison sentence for house arrest for a Langley man caught with nearly $250,000 worth of ecstasy and fentanyl after his luxury car was seized as “an instrument of illegal activity.”

The Crown successfully appealed the conditional sentence of just under two years and three years of probation that a B.C. provincial court judge handed Kyle Robert Bird last November after the now 38-year-old was convicted of two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking. His 2013 Jaguar XF had already been seized under British Columbia’s civil forfeiture program.

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“I am satisfied the sentence imposed in the provincial court is demonstrably unfit,” Justice Joyce DeWitt-Van Oos wrote in a recent decision from B.C.’s Appeal Cou

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