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A high-ranking member of the Fallen Saints Motorcycle Club is the first person to be sentenced on criminal organization charges resulting from the Project Forseti investigation in Saskatoon.

On Friday, Justin Murray Smith, 34, was sentenced to 18 years in prison for several gun, drug and organized crime offences. The Crown had argued for a 20-year global sentence while the defence sought nine years.

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Justice Shawn Smith sent a strong message with his sentence, calling Smith a trafficker of “poison and the instruments of death” at the “heart of organized crime” in Saskatoon.

Smith pleaded guilty to fentanyl, heroin and cocaine trafficking during the second day of what was scheduled to be a 10-day trial at Court of Queen’s Bench. He then entered guilty pleas to unauthorized transfer of a handgun, unlawful possession of a handgun for the purpose of trafficking and conspiring with a police agent to traffic cocaine.