VANCOUVER (NEWS1130) – A BC man is going to Arizona to finally answer to child-luring charges laid back in February of 2006.
Jay Cameron Johnstone is accused of luring a 13-year-old online. He was arrested after a sting, where an undercover police officer posed as the teenager.
According to court documents, he’s alleged to have set up a meeting with the girl to engage in sexual acts.
In June of that year, however, the US immigration department threw Johnstone out of the country, saying his visa had expired.
In October of 2007, the state of Arizona wanted him back, to face the child luring charges.
That’s when Johnstone began his lengthy fight against the extradition order. In a written submission to the minister of justice in 2008, he argued that a sentence in the States would be more severe than a sentence in Canada.
When the Canadian government ordered him to surrender to American authorities in 2009, he asked the minister to reconsider, on the grounds that his days in custody in Maricopa County, Arizona before he got bail revealed how inhumane and oppressive the jail system is. In an affidavit, he described the prison as overcrowded, its food unacceptable, and its inmates threatening.
The minister then reiterated the extradition order after reconsidering the case in 2011.
The case was reconsidered a second time by the ministry of justice, and again the extradition order was issued in 2012.
Johnstone then made his case in front of the BC Court of Appeal panel, which has essentially defended the extradition order, which means Johnstone will have to go back to Arizona to deal with the child-luring charge.
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I have to say I worked with this guy, and he must be absolutely guilty. He told us that his ex-wife set him up and that it was his step-daughter whom he was being charged for. After reading this I find out it was an undercover cop, he is defineatly a predator just ask any young ladies he worked with who experienced his manipulative and coniving ways.
Hope they let the info out that he’s a youth predator. They don’t do well in any prison.
So… what? He thinks jails should be a nice spacious room, with fresh bed sheets and a seafood buffet cart sent to his room every morning? This made me laugh. Be a man and face what you deserve!
“before he got bail revealed how inhumane and oppressive the jail system is. In an affidavit, he described the prison as overcrowded, its food unacceptable, and its inmates threatening.”
Sounds like we need more jails like that up here…maybe more of a dterrent.
This excuse for a human being should have been sent back years ago, why are we wasting taxpayers money on listening to all his appeals and whining complaints ?