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Tyson Saviro Santolla: Vancouver International Airport

Bradley Reid Dept: Tyson Saviro Santolla was supposed to be sentenced in Brisbane last week in connection with drug smuggling allegations. A co-accused received a three-year jail sentence but Santolla failed to appear, according to CBC. Santolla's legal woes began in October, 2008. He and fellow Canadian Jonothan Bradley Reid were supposed to be touring a region of Australia known as Surfer's Paradise, when police intercepted a PlayStation that was headed their way and a B.C. man is facing extradition to Australia for smuggling of thousand of ecstasy tablets inside a Playstation console and then allegedly flying home back to Canada just before his sentencing. According to documents filed in Richmond Provincial Court, the 22-year-old turned up at Vancouver International Airport instead. He was arrested on arrival, accused of travelling on a passport that wasn't his own and lying to immigration authorities. He's been in custody ever since. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.