Taking part in the kidnapping and confinement of a Calgary woman blamed for a $38,400 drug rip-off who was bound, beaten and burned has landed a city man a 2½-year jail term. Read More
Noteworthy legal cases in Calgary and area from April 22-25, 2025
Noteworthy legal cases in Calgary and area from April 22-25, 2025
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Taking part in the kidnapping and confinement of a Calgary woman blamed for a $38,400 drug rip-off who was bound, beaten and burned has landed a city man a 2½-year jail term.
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With credit for time already served on remand, Magiir Peter Adoul Magiir must serve 200 more days of custody, Justice Nancy Carruthers said Tuesday in accepting a joint Crown and defence submission.
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The Calgary Court of King’s Bench judge agreed with prosecutor Katherine Love and defence counsel Andrew MacKenzie that a 30-month term for Magiir’s role in the kidnapping of Samantha Mather was justified.
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Reading from a statement of agreed facts, Love detailed the circumstances that resulted in Mather being blindfolded with duct tape and taken to an unknown location overnight.
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Love said that near the end of November 2023, Mather had been corresponding with an individual named Lazarus Teny, whom she knew as LA, about his wish to obtain methamphetamine for him and his associates.
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“Mather was able to arrange for an individual known to her as Tommy to meet with Mr. Teny and his associates. Tommy was to provide the methamphetamine, Mr. Teny and his associates were to provide $38,400,” Love said.
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A Dec. 1, 2023, meeting was arranged between Mather, Teny’s associates — including Magiir — and a runner for Tommy in a Macleod Trail parking lot, she said.
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“Tommy’s runner arrived around 7:30 p.m., parking near where Mr. Magiir had parked,” she told Carruthers.
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“Mr. Magiir then left the rental vehicle and delivered a bag containing $38,400 to the runner in the other vehicle. Mr. Magiir exchanged the money for a bag of what was supposed to be methamphetamine.”
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But when Magiir returned to the car and checked out the contents of the bag he found “some type of road salt.”
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Magiir and another male blamed Mather for the loss of their money and demanded she contact Tommy to get the money back.
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“He answered one call but only laughed at Ms. Mather,” Love said.
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One of the males in the rental vehicle pulled the hood of Mather’s sweatshirt over her head and duct taped it, covering her eyes, and she was first driven to a location where Teny was picked up and then to an unknown location.
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There, Mather’s arms and ankles were tied to a plastic chair by Magiir and others and she was assaulted.
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“At some point during the assault Ms. Mather’s legs were burned a couple of times with some object,” Love said.
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The following day she was driven to her mother’s Airdrie home and dropped off before she called 911.
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Before she was released Teny, who was earlier handed a three-year term for the kidnapping, told her she needed to get the money back and advised her on ways to obtain loans.
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