The judge wasn't inclined to slap Kyle Alexander Purvis with a 10 year prison sentence in late 2013. The judge described Kyle Alexander Purvis, 36, as the 'boots on the ground' part of the operation. Starting with the 19 years Adam Kaup bought for his role in a massive cocaine scheme, the judge subtracted six months for Purvis’s lesser role in the scheme, six months for his rough background and intellectual challenges, six months for his strict house arrest and a year for Purvis’s lack of any related drug record. “That leaves 16.5 years in the penitentiary.”
 | Kyle Purvis’ role was to set up a warehouse on Mohawk Street to receive cocaine shipments at what looked like a legitimate company – KP Heavy Equipment. Adam Kaup was the logistics man. Vincenzo Capotorto, 48, the alleged money man, walked on all charges. |  |
 | Adam Kaup, 43, pleaded guilty to importing 1,512 kg of cocaine that was to be delivered to the Brantford warehouse in 2022. Kaup also acknowledged a previous plan that brought in a large shipment in 2021 that went undetected by cops.
“It’s breathtaking,” said Justice Gethin Edward as he sentenced Kaup to 19 years in prison. Purvis was director of a heavy equipment repair and service company Deval Handling Equipment Inc. at 133 Mohawk St, Brantford, Ont. Capotorto owned the warehouse. |
 | Purvis was charged with importing a controlled substance into Canada and possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking. Charges came a month after 1.5 tonnes of cocaine was seized by CBSA hidden inside a marine container in Saint John, N.B. The huge cocaine shipment travelled a winding route from Colombia, through Costa Rica, Jamaica and the Dominican Republic inside secret compartments in a large piece of machinery, its final destination was a bogus heavy equipment business in Brantford. Valued was pegged at $198m and it is the largest quantity of cocaine seized from a marine shipping container in Atlantic Canada in three decades. |
