Marijuana-smoking Mountie pleads guilty to assaulting RCMP officers

Fredericton,  A New Brunswick Mountie who complained he wasn’t allowed to smoke medicinal marijuana for post-traumatic stress disorder while in uniform has pleaded guilty to assaulting four RCMP officers.
Cpl. Ron Francis had previously pleaded not guilty to assaulting two officers during an incident in Fredericton on Dec. 6 and not guilty to assaulting two other officers in Oromocto on Jan. 12 of this year.
Francis, who is on leave from the RCMP, was to have stood trial today on the December charges but entered the guilty pleas to both incidents instead.
He has also pleaded guilty to a charge of breaching a judge’s order not to consume or possess alcohol or non-prescription illicit drugs.
Sentencing is set for Nov. 3.

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