A former Toronto police officer “deeply regrets his actions” after consuming cannabis-infused chocolate that had just been seized during a dispensary raid in January — an on-duty incident that prompted an emergency police response and sent three officers to hospital. Former constable Vittorio Dominelli pleaded guilty to attempting to obstruct justice in a College Park courtroom Friday where a detailed account of the high-profile incident was read out and a segment of the emergency call Dominelli made that night was played. “Send an ambulance,” Dominelli, 36, told an emergency dispatcher on Jan. 27, shortly after consuming part of a hazelnut-flavoured chocolate bar infused with cannabis while on-the-job and armed.“What’s going on?” the dispatcher responds. “I think I’m going to pass out … I’m just light-headed,” he responds. The officer, a married father of three who had been with the Toronto police for 13 years, has resigned in the wake of the incident, which also saw him charged with criminal breach of trust, a charge withdrawn Friday. His lawyer, Peter Brauti, said his client recognized he had “lost the trust of the policing community and the public to the point where he could no longer be a police officer.”“The first place to start is to say I’m sorry, sorry for my actions, my judgment and for being to inconsiderate,” Dominelli wrote in a letter submitted as evidence, apologizing to the public, the Toronto Police Service and his family. “My actions were wrong and the community that I served deserves that I be held accountable for those actions,” the officer wrote. His partner that night, Const. Jamie Young, was not present in court Friday. She is still facing one count of criminal breach of trust and attempting to obstruct justice The charges against her have not been proven.In an agreed statement of facts read out by Crown Prosecutor Philip ...
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