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Vancouver taxi driver used cab for dial-a-dope operation, found guilty of trafficking charge

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Vancouver taxi driver found guilty of drug-trafficking charge in B.C. Supreme Court .

Rafiqul Islam used his cab to make drug deliveries for a dial-a-dope operation run by others.

Islam was arrested in June 2021 after he picked up one of his co-accused in the cab he co-owns.

Islam testified at his November trial he had no knowledge of what they had in their knapsacks or the two condo suites he frequently drove them to or from were drug stash houses.

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53

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informal

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English

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60

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short-lived

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