Lyle Niemi sentenced to 14 years in prison

Lyle Niemi has been on trial before a jury for the past month in a Barrie court. He has admitted that he was the pilot who flew a small jet engine plane into the Simcoe Regional Airport just north of Barrie on Nov. 7, 2001. But Niemi has insisted he did not know that nine hockey bags that were loaded on his plane contained 269 kilograms of pure cocaine, along with 17 bricks of hashish.