Accused trafficker will finish university

A Nunavut judge has allowed an Iqaluit resident accused of trafficking drugs to complete his final year of university in Ontario, before making any future court appearances.

Andrew MacDonald, 29, was charged with possessing marijuana for the purposes of trafficking in July, related to an incident between December, 2003, and January, 2004.

Wearing a starch-white dress shirt and pinned-striped black pants, MacDonald appeared in court in Iqaluit last week, asking that the court permit him to return to Trent University in Peterborough, Ont., for his last year in an undergraduate program in sociology.

On Sept. 1, Justice Robert Kilpatrick told MacDonald he can move back to Peterborough, but has to report weekly by phone to RCMP in Iqaluit, confirming that he still lives there.

Court documents don’t say when MacDonald is expected back in court.