One of two women arrested in relation to a seven-month drug trafficking investigation in Antigonish and Port Hawkesbury is scheduled to return to court Monday.
Carol Bouchie, 47, of Aulds Cove faces two counts of trafficking oxycodone and two counts of trafficking hydromorphone; her case opened in court in September.
Bouchie elected a Nova Scotia Supreme Court judge-and-jury trial during an election-and-plea hearing in Port Hawkesbury Provincial Court in October; she’s expected back in court for a preliminary inquiry, which will determine if there’s enough evidence to send her case to trial, after the hearing was adjourned April 19.
Darlene Bowen, 55, of Embree Island, who was also charged in the case, pleaded guilty to a single count of possession for the purpose of trafficking in December; a judge sentenced her to 18 months behind bars and 18 months of probation during a sentencing hearing in Nova Scotia Supreme Court in Port Hawkesbury April 12.
Police say members of the Inverness/Richmond RCMP Street Crime Enforcement Unit made the arrests in the opioid trafficking investigation in the Port Hawkesbury area in August.
They say their investigation started in Feb. 2018.
