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Key First Nation band Coun. Clarence Papequash admits to drug trafficking

Clarence Papequash, a band councillor from Saskatchewan’s Key First Nation, pleads guilty to drug trafficking. Andrew Unangst / Getty Images

UPDATE: Key First Nation band councillor gets one year for drug, weapons charges

Clarence Papequash, a band councillor on the Key First Nation in Saskatchewan who was accused of selling drugs, has pleaded guilty to two charges.

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Papequash, 64, was in Yorkton provincial court on Monday where he entered his plea to counts of possession of codeine for the purpose of trafficking and possession of ammunition while prohibited.

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He will face a sentencing hearing on April 24.

Mounties executed a search warrant last month at a home on the reserve east of Saskatoon and Papequash was suspended as a councillor by the chief after charges were laid.

Papequash resigned as chief of the band in 2014 when he was given a six-month conditional sentence for selling a morphine pill to a man working for the RCMP.

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Following his release on bail in February, Papequash told a reporter that he had recently been battling addiction.

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Key First Nation is approximately 335 kilometres east of Saskatoon.

With files from Global News

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