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Vancouver Island woman gets 13 years in federal prison for drug trafficking offences

Sentencing at Campbell River provincial court handed Leah Marie Lewis a 13-year federal prison term on July 31, 2025, after she pleaded guilty to trafficking charges.
On Feb. 21, 2024, Campbell River RCMP raided a 'fortress-like' Nursery Road property, seizing one kilogram each of cocaine and methamphetamine, cash, firearms, and trafficking materials.
Campbell River RCMP reported that evidence showed modified fentanyl forms and seized 3,500 Dilaudid tablets believed diverted from safe supply, police said.
She was banished from the We Wai Kai First Nation and received a mandatory lifetime firearms ban, leaving 12 years and 15 days remaining after credit for time served.
We Wai Kai Elected Chief Ronnie Chickite said the case highlights concerns about government-funded safe supply medication ending up in the illicit market.

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Leah Marie Lewis was sentenced on Thursday, July 31, at the provincial court in Campbell River

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Campbell River Mirror broke the news in 7 days ago on Monday, August 11, 2025.

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CAMPBELL RIVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA, AUG 11 – Lewis received 13 years after pleading guilty to trafficking cocaine, methamphetamine, fentanyl, and diverted hydromorphone, with police seizing drugs capable of hundreds of thousands of lethal doses.