RCMP Mr. Big sting on accused killer Greg Fertuck began with fake contest at bar offsale in Saskatoon
CBC
The undercover police sting that led to the first-degree murder charge against Greg Fertuck began as a fake contest run out of the Mano's Restaurant offsale on 22nd St. W in Saskatoon, testimony revealed at his trial Monday.
It was the summer of 2018, three years after Sheree Fertuck had disappeared and 10 months after Greg had been arrested, interrogated and released.
RCMP had kept Greg under surveillance since his release in October 2017, amassing a cache of details of his life that could be exploited during an undercover operation.
The officer who orchestrated the sting testified Monday at the start of the fifth week of Fertuck's trial at Court of Queen's Bench in Saskatoon. Justice Richard Danyliuk is presiding over the judge-alone trial.
None of the officers in the operation can be identified because of a court-ordered publication ban.
The broad strokes of the plan, known as a Mr. Big sting, involved undercover officers posing as criminals and convincing Greg to disclose the truth of what happened to Sheree.
They did that by playing out 136 structured interactions, known as scenarios, between the summer of 2018 and late spring of 2019. The majority were audio recorded and key sessions were videotaped. It was called Project Fisten.
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