Overview

• Six years were imposed for possessing 41 grams of fentanyl for the purpose of trafficking, with the drugs recovered from a backpack during a police traffic stop.
• An additional three years covered convictions and guilty pleas for assaults, threats and break-ins tied to the same period of offending.
• Court evidence cited surveillance video and DNA linking Moyer to property crimes, including a building break-in and theft of tools.
• Prosecutors highlighted violence against vulnerable victims, such as a syringe threat to a thrift-shop security guard and a street attack to steal a backpack.
• The defence pointed to periods of sobriety, a low-security rating and good conduct in custody, requested a placement recommendation to Bath Institution, and noted relapse after pandemic job loss, while the Crown contrasted a prior six-month meth trafficking sentence a decade ago.