English teacher from Canada arrested for dealing drugs

Cody. We'll miss you! Keep your eyes open inside. - Sam

I hope this individual gets the full force of the Taiwanese law. It's people like him that give all foreigners in Taiwan a bad reputation.

THESE kinds of people make westerners look bad in eyes of Taiwanese. Authorities should make harsh sentencing and make it public in different languages so in the future foreigners don't take Taiwan for granted. All the language schools in Taiwan don't choose your teacher if they have white face, grey hair. For God’s sake come out of the closet and do the background checking thoroughly. We send our kids to your school to learn a foreign language not to learn (how to do drugs).

Sux Cody! Good luck buddy...

Thank God this monkey is out of the schools. How does that suck, Robby? Cocaine dealer / school teacher Hmmmmmmm... you need to check yourself.

I think its funny that the hundreds of Taiwanese drug dealers who get busted never get written up about. Or the pimps or the people traffickers.

No wonder it is so difficult to get our hands on some decent grade coke. it should be legalized government regulated.

That sucks buddy. Best of luck.

What an idiot. Perhaps he missed the notices at every airport in Taiwan saying drug trafficking is punishable by death... Send this moron to the firing squad.
It is yet another example of whites taking advantage of the Taiwanese, simply because of the colour of their skin. Part of the blame lies with the language schools for employing people based on their nationality/ethnicity, but the government really needs to crack down on these stupid foreigners. Make an example of this guy.

This guy should be treated/punished as a local would, no worse, no better. What makes people think he was selling coke to his students? Or that he was "teaching" children to do coke, seriously? The WILLING buyers at the night clubs weren’t lucrative enough for him, so he preyed on his innocent child students, right? PLEASE! Surely tufingyen does not think Asian teachers never sell drugs, nnnooooo, that never happens. Just like young Taiwanese males never have sex, only lusty zesty foreign English teachers do that, right tufingyen? And grey hair huh????


tofingyen, you can rest assured this Friday as you are traveling to your buddies house to slam down some gao liang or pi jiu, that of the hundreds of thousands of Taiwanese who wish to do cocaine this weekend, not a single one of them will be denied their drug even though this guy is off the street.

watch your a** once you're in there...don't get [expletive deleted]

Why is it every time a foreigner gets arrested for some crime (murder, drug dealing, etc.) it ends up in the pages of the China Post but the countless myriad of Taiwanese who are guilty of this (or worse) crimes don't unless their surname happens to be Chen or related to the aforementioned Chen. Is this an indication of anti-foreign bigotry on the part of the editors of this newspaper? Guilty of this? If so, this Canada should feel the full force of Taiwan's law. However, the editors of this newspaper have a LOT of soul searching to do as well. They have a clear anti-Westerner agenda and it drips from the pages of this paper with ever instance of this in the pages of the Post along with Joe Hung editorials addressing Westerners in Taiwan.

Karma's a bitch. Cody was a slime ball and screwed over several people I know. While he does give the foreign teaching population a bad name, so do the countless idiots getting drunk and making asses of themselves every night. Bottom line is he played a dangerous game in a country that has lax (but not nonexistent) enforcement and got caught. Maybe he was stupid, maybe he was unlucky, or maybe it was a combination of both. It was his own fault though. As for it ending up in the China Post, their readership is primarily foreigners (it's an English language paper, duh) and therefore they choose stories that cater to this readership. No conspiracy there. And with regards to people expecting certain behaviour (however unrealistic) from their children's teachers, try to imagine what your expectations might be if you had kids. No one really thinks he was selling to his students, but I don't think many of you would be too comfortable with a dealer of hard drugs teaching your kids. If you want to engage in behaviour like that, be a little smarter or do it in a more permissive environment.

Goofy bastard will get off with a slap on the wrist because he's Western. This is one more example of the talentless riff-raff that makes its way to Asia to loaf and teach English.

Enjoy your cell, eh.

No slaps on the wrist for coke dealing. Last Canadian who got busted is 4 years into a 15 year term.

Don’t grow weed or deal drugs in Taiwan. It will cost you roughly a decade of your life. Users get 60 days.

There are also native talentless language teachers. It doesn't stop people from starting businesses and ripping off millions, forcing kids to learn a language that they do not really need....

You sure said that right. An honest black man can't get a job at language schools in Taiwan. So, if they hired a white boy that was selling drugs, everyone involved got what they deserve. I wish that China would drop neutron bombs on Taiwan and burn off the population. I wouldn't even give the dirty sweat out of my [expletive deleted] in exchange for the lives the whole island.

He's out of jail already. Now how did that happen I wonder.

The guy needs to spend a lot of time in jail. Working in a day care center? What was he doing, cultivating future customers? Parents and the community should be outraged! A foreigner should obey the laws of the land! If you don't know the laws, FIND OUT! I hope this Cody guy spends many, MANY, years in jail! He is a disgrace to all foreigners who come as honest and law abiding visitors!

You'll miss him? Perhaps you should go with him, and you can watch each other's backs! You're as disgusting as he is.

I do hope your cigars leaves have no mixture from the marijuana leaves.

@ludahai twn
If you love those drug dealers, go ahead. Nobody will stop you. Overdose yourself and down you go to jail with Cody in paradise of hell. Huhhh!!! Are you a drug courier, a drug pusher or a drug user like Cody?

Nothing surprising here. Cody isn't the first English teacher that is caught. It is widely known amongst young expats that English teaching in Taiwan and dealing drugs on the side can be a lucrative way of "living it up". I have never partaken in it, but have had multiple acquaintances who did. I am happy the idiot got caught and hope the rest of the drug dealers get the same treatment. Trust me this is more common than what you would think, even with the locals and the ABC. There is a HUGE underground mafia in Taiwan and the government isn't doing anything about it - certainly not for the last 10 years. Guys like Cody give the rest of the foreigners a bad reputation.

So with his 'day time' English teaching job he earned enough to live it up in a XinYi 'high-rise' apartment? Yeah right...
Here I'm working my a** to the bone to make a decent living, while you pimp it out, selling drugs at parties...Somebody should inform the China Post to check their records, cause this is the same fool that drove his girlfriend's SUV INTO a 7/11 last year, totally drunk! Hope you get what you deserve this time, Cody!

Umm are you guys reading this? He's not in jail! Go figure.

Well, Cody learn your lessons there. And members of his gang beware. All days for the thief, one day for the house owner.

More teachers should read this website www.newteacherhelp.com so that this stupid stuff stops happening. Tons of free, common-sense help!

Was any one of you posting here actually in the apt. on the night of the "alleged bust"? and if you read the "news" report Cody was supposedly quoted saying he did not know POSSESSION of drugs was illegal and that he was not involved with TRAFFICKING of drugs, also food for thought 3 different news reports 3 different stories hmmmm then if you don't read all the posts you ASSUME something that was incorrect in the first place that somebody decided to shoot their mouths off about . Would love to see a post on here from someone that was actually at the Apt. that night. And what does driving the SUV into a 7/11 have anything to do with the report about this "Alleged Drug Bust."

wow, how would you like it if your family had to read a statement like that about you, however someone’s faults has disrupted your life that’s not fair to you and for that I am sure everyone is sorry, but you have the nerve to make a statement like that and talk about Karma! Disgraceful to you.

Oh right--no one knows that POSSESSION of drugs is illegal in Taiwan.

In ancient times the coca plant was perfected as "slave tea" by the Inca rulers. What mystery is it that Taiwanese and foreigners who work in Taiwan use it- given the work environment there?

Anyone knows what Canadian Member of Parliament David Dingwall does when he's in Taiwan?

If the shoe fits...He's a loser. If I were his family I'd be embarrassed to know him.

LOL! "... sorry I crashed into your 7-11... but now that I'm here - can I get 2 chocolate bars, a slurpee..."

This story has mysteriously disappeared from many blogs and forums...rumors now say that his father is involved with high end business and politics in Taipei...anyone know anything?

His dad isn't involved with anything. It isn't hard to get stuff erased!