A Canadian soldier was jailed for 30 days Friday for giving her comrades on a live-fire training exercise cupcakes laced with pot..Commander Sandra Sukstorf, the judge presiding over the court-martial, called.Bombardier Chelsea Cogswell’s behaviour “shockingly unacceptable” adding her actions could have resulted in fellow soldiers being killed..“This case is unique with no similar cases in existence,” Sukstorf said during sentencing..The sentence includes a reduction in rank to private gunner and dismissal from the Canadian Armed Forces..In video testimony, Cogswell told military police she made chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing and a jelly bean on top for her fellow soldiers, but denied adding any cannabis..Cogswell, who has served in the Canadian military since 2011, was working in the canteen during the multi-week “Exercise Common Gunner” at CFB Gagetown in July 2018, part of the Royal Canadian Artillery School’s officer training..Court heard five soldiers at the live-fire exercise tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). A wrapper from one of the cupcakes also indicated the presence of THC..The cupcakes certainly changed the soldiers’ reactions..One incorrectly set timing fuses on explosives, another improperly loaded a weapon and a gunner walked in front of a howitzer. A soldier almost crashed his military truck and others say they were overcome by laughter..Court heard Cogswell had access to medical marijuana, which she used as a sleep aid..Cogswell had faced up to five years in prison after being found guilty Wednesday by a court-martial trial at CFB Gagetown in New Brunswick for spiking cupcakes..Cogswell was convicted on eight counts of administering a noxious substance and one count of behaving in a disgraceful manner. .Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
A Canadian soldier was jailed for 30 days Friday for giving her comrades on a live-fire training exercise cupcakes laced with pot..Commander Sandra Sukstorf, the judge presiding over the court-martial, called.Bombardier Chelsea Cogswell’s behaviour “shockingly unacceptable” adding her actions could have resulted in fellow soldiers being killed..“This case is unique with no similar cases in existence,” Sukstorf said during sentencing..The sentence includes a reduction in rank to private gunner and dismissal from the Canadian Armed Forces..In video testimony, Cogswell told military police she made chocolate cupcakes with chocolate icing and a jelly bean on top for her fellow soldiers, but denied adding any cannabis..Cogswell, who has served in the Canadian military since 2011, was working in the canteen during the multi-week “Exercise Common Gunner” at CFB Gagetown in July 2018, part of the Royal Canadian Artillery School’s officer training..Court heard five soldiers at the live-fire exercise tested positive for tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). A wrapper from one of the cupcakes also indicated the presence of THC..The cupcakes certainly changed the soldiers’ reactions..One incorrectly set timing fuses on explosives, another improperly loaded a weapon and a gunner walked in front of a howitzer. A soldier almost crashed his military truck and others say they were overcome by laughter..Court heard Cogswell had access to medical marijuana, which she used as a sleep aid..Cogswell had faced up to five years in prison after being found guilty Wednesday by a court-martial trial at CFB Gagetown in New Brunswick for spiking cupcakes..Cogswell was convicted on eight counts of administering a noxious substance and one count of behaving in a disgraceful manner. .Dave Naylor is the News Editor of the Western Standard.,dnaylor@westernstandardonline.com,.Twitter.com/nobby7694
