MONTREAL -- Popular Quebec singer Claude Dubois was sentenced to 22 months in prison Friday for his part in a $20,000 sale of 50 grams of heroin to an undercover police agent.
A jury found the 34-year-old singer guilty of drug trafficking last month.
The offence carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment.
Quebec Superior Court Judge Jacques Ducros handed Dubois an additional six months for one of the two charges he faced. The additional six months will be served concurrently with the 22-month sentence.
Ducros said Dubois, who was sentenced to three years of probation following his release from prison, must spend at least 14 months of his term in a detoxification program he began last month at Lac Echo, 80 kilometers north of Montreal in the Laurentian countryside.
Dubois was arrested April 8 at a downtown hotel.
