Saskatoon gunrunner Corey Amber Paddy sentenced to 5 years
A Saskatoon mother convicted of gun-running told the judge sentencing her, "I won't be here again."
Corey Amber Paddy made the vow to Justice Richard Elson at Court of King's Bench on Tuesday. Elson had just accepted a joint sentencing recommendation of five years from prosecutor Andrew Clements and defence lawyer Kimbal MacMillan.
Elson said that he's heartened by Paddy's intentions, adding "one can only live in hope."
With credit for time served, Paddy has two years and six months left.
A jury convicted Paddy of six firearms-related charges after a trial in April 2023.
Paddy came to be charged in April 2020 after police spotted her on surveillance footage outside a storage unit on Wanuskewin Road in Saskatoon's north end. She was helping Brett Karol, her boyfriend, move items from a truck and U-haul trailer into the unit. At the time, police were only investigating Karol.
Karol went on to plead guilty to a raft of firearms charges and was sentenced to five years.
Over the course of five days of testimony and evidence, jurors heard conflicting views of what was happening on the surveillance footage, and were offered different ways of interpreting recorded conversations between Paddy and Karol when he was in jail.
Since her arrest, Paddy has quit drinking — sober for four years now — and made plans to return to school on her release.
"She does not want her past to define her," MacMillan said
