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Sandra Helm, who was held in a Magog home with her husband, says their abductors wanted to use them "as leverage" after a failed drug transaction.

A Quebec police officer told a trial Thursday that a couple from Upstate New York were kidnapped and smuggled into Quebec in 2020 because of a botched drug deal involving their grandson. Investigator Guillaume Poirier is on the stand in the trial of Gary Arnold, 54, a Quebec man facing seven charges in an alleged conspiracy to abduct James and Sandra Helm.

The lead investigator in the kidnapping of Sandra and James Helm said everything began when their grandson was arrested with cocaine.

Efforts to fight the fire and search for missing employees were stymied initially by the risk of further explosions and then by fears that fuel stored at the site could contaminate local waterways.

MONTREAL — The trial of a man accused of forcibly kidnapping an elderly couple from Moira in 2020 has begun.

The lead investigator in the kidnapping of Sandra and James Helm said everything began when their grandson was arrested with cocaine.

Gary Arnold is charged with kidnapping, forcible confinement, extortion and conspiring with other men.

The Quebec man accused of kidnapping a couple in their 70s from New York state was back in court Tuesday for the start of his trial.

Sandra and James Helm were grabbed from their home in Moira, N.Y., and held in Magog. Phone records are under scrutiny at Gary Arnolds trial.

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