The Maserati-driving Prince George cocaine dealer busted almost four years ago was sentenced Jan. 13 to three-and-a-half years in prison.
BC Supreme Court Justice Ronald Tindale agreed to the joint Crown and defence proposal for Quinn Alexander Davidson, 34.
“It's very sad in the case of Mr. Davidson, because he's a young man that has significant potential,” Tindale said. “He has a young wife and a beautiful new child that he's going to lose time with and I think that, probably more so than anything else, has driven home the wrongness of his actions.”
Cocaine, Tindale said, wreaks havoc in the community and, as Davidson noted in a pre-sentencing report, “people are going to extreme lengths to obtain money to purchase drugs and wreaking havoc on their life.”
Last June, Davidson pleaded guilty to possession for the purpose of trafficking. Court heard the operator of a dial-a-dope scheme caught the attention of police through a confidential tip about a drug-dealing Maserati owner in Prince George. Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit of BC searched provincial records and found four Maseratis located in Prince George, but only one matched Davidson’s.
Prince George RCMP conducted surveillance on Davidson in February and March 2022 and even installed a tracker on his Dodge Ram pickup truck, which he drove to and from Vancouver in late March 2022.
Police officers arrested Davidson on March 30, 2022 and obtained a search warrant for his house, where they found a sealed brick of cocaine weighing just over a kilogram inside a gym bag. The cocaine was 93-96 per cent pure and estimated to be worth between $26,000 and $133,200, depending on whether it would sold by the kilogram or gram-by-gram.
They also found drug dealing paraphernalia and $10,000 in Canadian bills. Davidson’s iPhone and iPad yielded messages and photographs of cocaine and firearms. He boasted to one client that he sold “the best coke in the city.”
Davidson’s wife and baby were both in the courtroom for the sentencing hearing. He also has three children from another relationship. Court heard that Davidson holds a class 1 licence to drive trucks, but suffers from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and mental health issues and has used cocaine himself.
Tindale said the pre-sentencing report indicated Davidson was remorseful. The case underwent a preliminary inquiry and was scheduled for a 10-day trial, but Davidson decided to plead guilty, because he did not want to waste the court’s time.
While he gained a lot of money, Davidson lost his freedoms and he knows his actions were dangerous to the community.
“He is aware he profited from many victims who were heavily addicted to illicit substances, saying many of his clients used their welfare checks or child tax returns to purchase substances from him,” Tindale said.
Earlier, Davidson told Tindale that he wanted to “apologize to the community of Prince George, I know what I did was wrong.”
“I just want to come out (of jail) a better person,” Davidson said.
