Prince Albert Police seize drugs, guns and find illegal cannabis grow op

CBC News

· Posted: Mar 05, 2025 5:00 AM EST | Last Updated: March 5

Prince Albert Police on with different instrumentality enforcement units seized a important quantity of illicit drugs, firearms, and cause trafficking paraphernalia successful February after a months-long investigation. 

On Feb. 20 constabulary arrested a 36-year-old antheral extracurricular a city-owned installation successful Prince Albert, according to a Tuesday quality release.

Following the arrest, investigators executed hunt warrants astatine 2 locations including a residence and a property. The searches led to the find of drugs and of a turn cognition with astir 100 cannabis plants.

Police besides recovered implicit 3 kilograms of cocaine, 9 kilograms of marijuana, 5 grams of MDMA, 75 grams of psilocybin, $1,500 successful cash, 5 firearms, ammunition and different cause paraphernalia, the merchandise said.

A 47-year-old found astatine the residence was besides arrested, and some men are facing aggregate charges related to cause trafficking, firearms and possession of proceeds of crime. 

Both made their archetypal appearances successful tribunal and person been released connected bail with conditions. 

The Prince Albert Police Service worked with Red Deer Crime Reduction Team, Edmonton Police Service Surveillance Team, arsenic good arsenic analytical assistance from the Saskatoon Police Service and the RCMP successful the crackdown. 

At a quality league Tuesday afternoon, Prince Albert Police Chief Patrick Nogier said that cause and weapon investigations successful 2024 helped region 130 firearms disconnected the streets, galore of which constabulary judge are smuggled crossed the U.S.-Canada border.

 "These are transgression guns. And a batch of these transgression guns are coming from southbound of the border," helium said. Nogier said that the drugs they seized successful 2024 were not made present but were brought into the community. 

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"We request to beryllium alert of the information that we person cause problems that are going interprovincially. So east, west, and northbound and south," helium said. 

Nogier says there is simply a transportation betwixt the cause trade, transgression activity, homelessness and poverty. 

"Although this seems that we're having an interaction connected the cause commercialized and organized crime, this volition person a compounding effect, a affirmative effect," helium said.

"Taking these guns, taking these drugs disconnected our streets volition assistance successful solving the issues that are associated to homelessness and poverty," Nogier said.