For setting up a drug deal gone wrong that ended with a woman being dragged by a vehicle as she attempted to get her money back, Chad Joudry will serve four months in jail.

"As I was listening to the details, the thing that was going through my mind was no good deed goes unpunished," Ontario Court Justice Andrew Buttazzoni told Joudry, 27, as he issued the sentence.

"It was an unfortunate turn of events … You assisted in buying the drugs. She was injured. Things did not work out as anticipated. You have a lengthy criminal record. I agree with the Crown: it’s (sentence) on the short end of the scale … It definitely would have been a difficult prosecution for the Crown.

Joudry, who had pleaded guilty to conspiring to traffic in a controlled substance, was also given a lifetime weapons ban and ordered to provide a genetic sample to the national DNA databank.

No probation order was issued along with the sentence, which had been suggested in a joint submission by the Crown and defence lawyer Denis Michel

The court heard Greater Sudbury Police officers responding to a report of a robbery outside a Royal Bank branch April 25, 2014, found an injured woman being treated by paramedics.

They learned the woman had been looking to buy drugs and, through Joudry, a deal was arranged at the site.

But when the woman gave a man in a vehicle her money, the man gave her fake Fentanyl patches and attempted to drive away.

The woman tried to get her money back and was then dragged for a distance.

The man, who fled with the woman’s money, then sent a text message to Joudry suggesting they do the same to another person.

Michel said Joudry had no knowledge the drug deal was going to end up a robbery. All Joudry admits to, he said, is having arranged for the woman to meet with the man to buy drugs.

"He organized the transaction," said Michel. "He didn’t organize the rip-off."

"While it’s not an early plea, it’s still a guilty plea in a case that would have been complicated for the Crown," said assistant Crown attorney Elise Quinn.

Joudry did not address the court.

harold.carmichael@sunmedia.ca