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High-ranking Kamloops drug dealer gets 12-year prison sentence
KAMLOOPS — A high-ranking Kamloops motorcycle gang member and drug trafficker has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Zale Coty was sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court in Kamloops Thursday (July 18). It comes after Coty pleaded guilty to multiple drug trafficking charges in April.
Coty and two other men were charged in 2022 after a lengthy undercover investigation that targeted the Sunshine Gardens hydroponics store in Valleyview, conducted by both Kamloops RCMP and the Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU-BC).
The three were associated with the Throttle Lockers Motorcycle Club, which police say was a support organization to the Kelowna chapter of the Hells Angels.