Equipment manager ordered millions in copper wire, sold it for drug money

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For more than a decade, a Charlotte County man ran a money laundering scheme involving purchases of $3.2 million in copper wire for the Cooke Aquaculture company where he worked and fencing the wire through a salvage owner for drug money, according to court documents. Patrick Brennan, 57, of Bonny River, nine kilometres north of St. George, pleaded guilty to fraud over $5,000 against Cooke Aquaculture on Oct. 4. Andrew Peters, 76, of Highway 175 in Pennfield, pleaded guilty Wednesday to possessi