Former Lakeshore, Ont. resident convicted on drug charges [Video]

A former Lakeshore man is facing a 10-year prison sentence after he was found guilty on drug charges.

Khaophone Sychantha, 43, was previously extradited from Canada to the U.S., after he was placed on Homeland Security Investigations’ (HSI) most wanted list.

Sychantha appeared in court and was found guilty on all charges after a six-day trial on Oct. 18.

The charges include:

• One count of conspiring to possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, ecstasy and BZP (N-benzylpiperazine)
• One count of possession of methamphetamine, ecstasy and BZP with intent to distribute
• One count of possession of ecstasy and BZP with intent to distribute.

The Laos and Canada dual-citizen reportedly “led an organization that directed several couriers to transport hundreds of thousands of pills and tens of thousands of dollars in drug proceeds across the U.S.-Canada border over an eight-year span,” according to a news release from HSI.

Multiple couriers involved were caught and convicted. …