{"id":100275,"date":"2017-04-29T01:24:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-29T05:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=100275"},"modified":"2017-04-29T01:24:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-29T05:24:52","slug":"three-men-sentenced-for-stealing-18-million-worth-of-maple-syrup-in-quebec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/04\/29\/three-men-sentenced-for-stealing-18-million-worth-of-maple-syrup-in-quebec\/","title":{"rendered":"Three men sentenced for stealing $18 million worth of maple syrup in Quebec"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_100276\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100276\" style=\"width: 394px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/maple-syrup.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-100276\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/maple-syrup.png\" alt=\"Three men convicted in connection with the theft of $18 million worth of maple syrup in Quebec were sentenced on Friday to between two and eight years. (Photo: QUOI Media Group\/Flickr)\" width=\"394\" height=\"258\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/maple-syrup.png 394w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/maple-syrup-300x196.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 394px) 100vw, 394px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-100276\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three men convicted in connection with the theft of $18 million worth of maple syrup in Quebec were sentenced on Friday to between two and eight years. (Photo: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/quoimedia\/5545366578\/\">QUOI Media Group\/Flickr<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Three men convicted in connection with the theft of $18 million worth of maple syrup in Quebec were sentenced on Friday to between two and eight years.<\/p>\n<p>Superior Court Justice Raymond Pronovost sentenced Richard Vallieres to eight years in prison, confiscated $606,500 from him and fined him another $9.4 million.<\/p>\n<p>Vallieres, who was convicted of theft, fraud and receiving stolen goods, will have to pay back the money over a 10-year period or risk having his sentence increased by six years.<\/p>\n<p>The other two men, Raymond Vallieres and Etienne St-Pierre, were each sentenced to jail terms of two years minus one day, to be served in the community, as well as three years probation.<\/p>\n<p>Raymond Vallieres will be required to pay $9,840 within one year, or go to jail for six months, while St-Pierre must pay $1.3 million over 15 years or be imprisoned for five years.<\/p>\n<p>A fourth man charged in the case, Jean Lord, was acquitted.<\/p>\n<p>The sentencing proceedings took place in a courtroom in Trois-Rivieres, Que., 140 kilometres northeast of Montreal.<\/p>\n<p>Jurors found the three men guilty last November in connection with the theft of 2,700 tons of syrup worth $18 million from a warehouse in Quebec between August 2011 and July 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The case made international headlines after the sweet stuff was reported missing following a routine inventory check at a warehouse in Saint-Louis-de-Blandford, Que.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation was launched after the barrels of syrup were found to have been drained and replaced with water.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from the RCMP, the Canada Border Services Agency and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement helped Quebec police in the investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONTREAL \u2014 Three men convicted in connection with the theft of $18 million worth of maple syrup in Quebec were &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":100276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,18,16],"tags":[11240],"class_list":["post-100275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-news-ca","category-news","tag-maple-syrup","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}