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A 34-year-old lady who pleaded responsible final yr to one rely of kidnapping in reference to the kidnapping of cryptocurrency influencer Kevin Mirshahi has been sentenced to two years in prison.
On the Salaberry-de-Valleyfield courthouse on Thursday, the decide sided with prosecutors who had requested Joanie Lepage be sentenced to two years after listening to proof she lent her home to these concerned in the quadruple kidnapping and homicide, and provided the suspects with cleansing merchandise.
Mirshahi, 25, and three of his pals had been kidnapped from a luxury condo in Outdated Montreal on June 21, 2024.
Three of the victims had been discovered alive at a bus cease 24 hours later, however Mirshahi was killed in the basement of the house in Les Cèdres, Que., in the Montérégie area.
His physique was later discovered in a park in Montreal’s Ahuntsic neighborhood.
The decide concluded that though it can’t be proved past an affordable doubt that Lepage was conscious of the kidnapping and homicide happening in her basement, proof demonstrates she willfully turned a blind eye to it.
In a pocket book discovered on the scene, Lepage had reportedly written: “$3,000, lending my basement to people who find themselves not very good? F–k sure,” in addition to “Silence is golden. … By no means ask questions.”
The pocket book additionally contained a bit outlining her alibi.
Proof prompt Lepage tried to throw police off the path and had helped the supects, offering them with cleansing merchandise, together with bleach.
“The decide right here determined to ship a message that it is unacceptable to act this manner” stated Crown prosecutor Patrick Cardinal. “Ms. Lepage has a task, because the decide talked about, that was secondary however important in the perpetration of the kidnapping.”
Lepage had hoped to serve out her sentence from her mother and father’ residence, however she violated the situations of her bail on a number of events, together with one time the place she was arrested for impaired driving in 2025.
Her lawyer, Patrick Davis, argued Lepage suffers from psychological well being points and dependancy to medicine and alcohol.
“It was a really well-informed resolution on the decide’s half,” Davis stated of the sentence. “However nonetheless, we’d have most popular that she have the opportunity to serve her sentence out in the group, given the issues she faces which might have been addressed exterior prison partitions.”
The courtroom is bearing in mind the 401 days Lepage already spent in prison awaiting trial, and she is subsequently set to be launched in lower than a yr.
Two different suspects are nonetheless awaiting trial in the case. Police are nonetheless trying to find the third suspect, who is taken into account the principle perpetrator.
