NIAGARA FALLS, Ont.—A constable with the Niagara Regional Police Service has been suspended with pay as a result of drug trafficking charges he faces in Federal Court in Buffalo, agency officials announced Friday.
Geoffrey Purdie, a 13-year veteran of the police service, faces an unscheduled court session in federal court in Buffalo for his April 5 arrest by the Border Enforcement Security Task Force of U.S. Homeland Security in Buffalo. Purdie is accused of trafficking in anabolic steroids and similar drugs.
Following his arrest, Purdie was released from custody but ordered to return to the United States for still-unscheduled proceedings in the drug case.