{
  "id": 17396592,
  "title": "Cocaine smuggler could avoid prison as judge fears incarceration would orphan 7-year-old son",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/cocaine-smuggler-could-avoid-prison-as-judge-fears-incarceration",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-31T08:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC Canada",
    "slug": "cbc-canada",
    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/cocaine-smuggler-could-avoid-prison-as-judge-fears-incarceration-would-orphan-7-year-old-son-9.7403223"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "A Toronto judge is weighing whether to send a single father to prison for importing cocaine into Newfoundland and Labrador during the pandemic, or find an alternate sentence that could \"break the cycle\" for his seven-year-old boy.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}