An aboriginal man found driving around a small central Ontario city with a crack pipe on his lap and a “killing machine” rifle in the backseat was handed a suspended sentence by a provincial court judge who cited his “intergenerational trauma” from residential schools as a mitigating factor.
Jesse Garlow, a convicted drug trafficker, had been in custody since June 2024 when he was sentenced earlier this month by Justice Brenda Green of the Ontario Court of Justice. She granted him credit for 774 days in jail, adding 258 days to his credit for enduring what she called “horrendous” conditions during his time at Central East Correctional Centre, a maximum security facility in Lindsay, Ont.
