Drug smuggler to stay in custody during appeal

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VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A convicted drug smuggler will have to stay in custody while he appeals.

Trucker Douglas Pocasangre was found guilty of trying to bring nine kilos of coke into Canada three years ago.

Border guards found a backpack hidden below the floor of Pocasangre’s  truck as he was crossing into Canada near Creston in March, 2010.

The coke inside had a street value of about three quarters of a million dollars.

Pocasangre was convicted and sentenced to eight years in prison, though he says he didn’t know the drugs were there.

BC’s highest court won’t let him out on bail while he appeals… The judge says Pocasangre will have a significant challenge convincing a panel of judges his trial judge made a mistake.

Pocasangre is now in his late 40’s and lives in Calgary. He immigrated to Canada from El Salvador as a political refugee after the Red Cross helped him escape.

He’d been helping his family in El Salvador financially.

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