EDMONTON - Notorious psychopath Leo Teskey has been busted for allegedly having a wide selection of illicit drugs in his jail cell at the downtown Edmonton Remand Centre.
The Aug. 2 bust happened just 10 days after Teskey was declared a dangerous offender and ordered locked up in prison indefinitely, and apparently before he was transferred to the maximum-security Edmonton Institution.
According to court documents obtained by the Edmonton Sun, Teskey has been charged with six counts of possession of a controlled substance, and the alleged drugs seized were cocaine, methamphetamine, marijuana, psilocybin (commonly known as magic mushrooms), MS Contin (a morphine- based painkiller) and ecstasy.
Teskey, 40, appeared briefly in court Friday on the charges and the case was put over to Sept. 17.
Alberta Solicitor General spokeswoman Michelle Davio said Friday that Edmonton Remand Centre officials had received a tip that Teskey had some illegal drugs and that guards searched him and then called police.
Teskey was charged with the drug offences on Aug. 17 at Edmonton Institution, where he is being held until an assessment determines what prison he will be sent to to begin serving his indefinite sentence.
Davio stressed that drugs "are not rampant" at the provincial correctional facility.
On July 23, Teskey was designated a dangerous
offender by provincial court Judge Eric Peterson, who ruled the career crimi - nal poses a "serious threat to society."
The judge found Teskey's actions were "indeed brutal" when he viciously attacked apartment building owner Dougald Miller and left him in a "waking coma" in 2000.
Peterson accepted expert evidence concluding that Teskey is "on the high end of psychopathy," he is "virtually untreatable" and he poses a "high risk" of re-offending.
Miller is unable to speak, stand or feed himself and remains in a near vegetative state in a nursing home.
Teskey has a lengthy rap sheet, including convictions for shooting city police Const. Mike Lakusta in 1988 and for tearing the penis of the two-year- old son of a girlfriend.
tony.blais@sunmedia.ca
