Hidden in a coat | Accused of having fetanyl in prison, she says she is cheating

“This woman used me to make her dirty work. Similarly, ” believes Lise Destroismaisons, accused of having tried to bring fentanyl in the river-des-prieuries prison in January 2018.

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“My God that I was naive and nonsense!” “Exclaimed the 74 -year -old lady, who testified for her defense Thursday at the Montreal courthouse. For example, His drug possession trial, started on Wednesday, is expected to end on Friday.

She claimed to have been fooled by a fellow prisoner of her son. However, her spouse, who would have passed on to him a coat hiding without his hidden coat | accused having knowledge 100 stamps of fentanyl.

Lise Destroismaisons was going to wear clothes to her son. Similarly, Dominique Héroux, at Rivière-des-Prairies prison on January 25, 2018 when a prison agent discovered 100 fentanyl stamps hidden in the lining of a winter coat, “the work of couturier”, according to the testimony of the agent on Wednesday.

Reread “one hundred fentanyl stamps sewn in a coat”

After a meticulous excavation. In addition, the rest of the personal effects of the septuagenarian did not contain drugs.

Originally, Lise Destroismaisons should only bring “running shoes, kangaroos, underwear and pants” to her son. However, The plans then changed. Moreover, He would have told her to need a winter coat. his “taken by the police as a conviction,” said Lise Destroismaisons.

Dominique Héroux then hidden coat | accused having proposed that the spouse of one of his fellow prisoners. Lise Jutras, brings her a coat “dragged into a wardrobe”, in addition to going back to a self-man deestroisisons in prison.

However, visitors must prepare the personal effects they bring to their loved ones themselves. Lise destroismaisons by being well aware. she “searched the pockets” of the coat, as she “searched the rest of the linen”.

M^me Jutras then quickly folded the coat to put it in a bag. saying that she did not want to miss the visit, said Lise Destroismaisons. “I found it funny that she takes it right away after I searched my pockets, quickly quickly. »»

“It’s true that I haven’t palpated the coat. Would I realize that there was something in it? It’s not my job, ”defended M^me Destroismaisons.

A few hours later, Lise Destroismaisons was in a state of arrest.

Hidden coat | accused having

“I lied completely”

Testifying in videoconference of the Cowansville penitentiary. Dominique Héroux tells the same story significantly as his mother. However. he added that the coat was not for him, but indeed for his fellow prisoner, the spouse of Lise Jutras.

He would have heard in a telephone conversation between Dominique Héroux. Lise Destroismaisons that she was unable to go alone to prison, due to health problems.

According to Mr. Héroux, the fellow prisoner then proposes that his spouse accompanies M^me Destroismaisons in prison. In exchange, Lise Jutras would leave him a coat, “because he often went to the courthouse and it was cold”.

Dominique Héroux hidden coat | accused having then told his mother that the coat is for him.

“I lied completely because I wanted to have my laundry,” he said in court. Asked by lawyers, Dominique Héroux said he had suffered from consumption problems.

For seven years. Lise Destroismaisons has suffered from nightmares and panic crises because of the seizure of drugs in January 2018 and legal proceedings.

She even said in 2020 that she had suicidal thoughts. “This idea has happened. Life, it can be beautiful for me, ”she said in the courtroom on Thursday.

The crown and the defense both ended the presentation of their evidence. The pleadings take place on Friday.

In an interview after the trial day. the defense lawyer, Maître François Létourneau-Prézeau, argued that proof was insufficient to hidden coat | accused having demonstrate that Lise Destroismaisons was intended to have custody and the control of fentanyl, an essential element to charge him.

Judge Betty Laurent’s verdict is not expected on Friday.