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Oops! Dealer accidentally texts offer to sell drugs to B.C. Mountie

KAMLOOPS, B.C. — Jail could be in the cards for an unlucky drug dealer who accidentally texted a police officer, offering a variety of illegal substances for sale.

Joshua Vos, 25, pleaded guilty in B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops on Thursday to two counts of trafficking in a controlled substance.

Federal Crown prosecutor Anthony Varesi said police became aware of Vos on Sept. 23, 2016, when a Kamloops Mountie received a text from an unknown number from someone identifying himself as Josh.

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“My friend, zooms, lucy, molly and mary will be available,” the message read, using a number of street terms for party drugs.

Two months later, an undercover Mountie texted the number looking for molly — a slang term for MDMA, or ecstasy.

Vos sold the undercover officer four grams of MDMA on Nov. 24, 2016, and nearly six additional grams in a separate transaction three weeks later.

In March, the officer texted Vos again looking to purchase more drugs, but Vos said he was no longer dealing.

“He said he’d had a change in morals and no longer sold illegal substances,” Varesi said.

Vos has no criminal record and was described by defence lawyer Jay Michi as a yoga devotee who works part-time as a gymnastics coach and children’s entertainer, dressing up as Spiderman for birthday parties.

“I feel I’ve learned some very interesting lessons over the past couple of years,” Vos said. “I’ve learned it’s not always easy to make the right choice.”

Calling his client’s circumstances “exceptional,” Michi urged B.C. Supreme Court Justice Hope Hyslop to spare Vos jail and place him on a lengthy probation term.

Varesi suggested a jail sentence in the range of nine months. Hyslop is expected to hand down a sentence next week.

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