Part 1: ‘Crazy, crazy criminality’

When Arron Linklater leaves his house, the essentials come with him: Wallet. Phone. Keys. Bullet-proof vest.

For 30-odd years, Linklater has been dealing cocaine in Dawson Creek, a small town tucked within the sprawling farmland in northern British Columbia at the origin point of the Alaska Highway.

Although he lives in a modest bungalow, Linklater boasts that his cocaine business can bring in hundreds of thousands of dollars a month. In all that time, the RCMP has only busted him once for drug trafficking.

A member of the nearby Carrier Sekani First Nation, Linklater has deep roots in town. His grandfather was Dawson Creek’s mayor in 1951, during its first major population boom thanks to the area's first gas plant and the arrival of the Pacific Great

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