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Saskatoon drug trafficker used Canada Post to mail pot

A former University of Saskatchewan student pleaded guilty this morning to drug trafficking and possessing a loaded .357 Magnum handgun.

Also arrested with .357 Magnum

Dale Christopher Renfrow mailed a package filled with five kilograms of marijuana. (Steve Dipaola/Reuters)

Dale ChristopherRenfrow'splan to mail drugsfrom Calgary to Saskatoon worked. At least until the box, with five kilograms of marijuana, got to Saskatoon.

Handgun recovered as part of drug arrest. (Saskatoon Police)
The pot parcel cracked open in a Canada Post sorting station in February 2012.Police were called anda non-drug-filled box wassubstituted, then the parcel sent on its way.

Police arrested Renfrow, then studying at the University of Saskatchewan, and charged him with trafficking. Officers also recovered a loaded .357 Magnum handgun.

Renfrow pleaded guilty in provincial court this morning to trafficking and possessing the handgun.

He was sentenced to one year, time served, on the weapons charge. He was given a conditional sentence of just under a year, to be served in the community, on the trafficking charge.