HALIFAX—A judge sentenced a former high-ranking RCMP officer to 10 years in prison for stealing and selling $300,000 worth of cocaine Thursday, saying the egregious breach of trust compromised the national police force and resulted in a “remarkable fall from grace.”
Justice James Chipman said 51-year-old retired staff sergeant Craig Robert Burnett’s corruption led him to exploit “the very law he was sworn to uphold.”
