A Grande Prairie trucker who repeatedly extorted and harassed a prostitute to get free sex has been sentenced to 12 months in jail and a year’s probation.

Between November 2022 and December 2023, Kyle James Drysdale “contacted the victim for sex and drugs ‘well over a thousand times’ via text messages, phone calls, and emails despite” the woman’s attempts to block him and her “expressions of displeasure,” Judge Jasmine Sihra of the Alberta Court of Justice wrote in a recent decision.