{"id":42051,"date":"2024-01-16T20:18:26","date_gmt":"2024-01-17T00:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaker.ca\/?p=42051"},"modified":"2024-01-16T20:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T00:18:26","slug":"further-charges-laid-against-man-relating-to-lower-sackvile-drug-weapons-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/?p=42051","title":{"rendered":"Further charges laid against man relating to Lower Sackvile drug, weapons investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LOWER SACKVILLE:<\/strong> A man who reportedly once called the Fall River area home has had further charges brought against him after two more search warrants were executed in relation to a drug and weapons-offence investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cpl. Guillaume Tremblay, with Halifax District RCMP, said that the force&#8217;s Community Action Response Team (CART) has executed two additional search warrants in relation to a drug trafficking and weapons investigation in Lower Sackville.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On January 5, RCMP CART, assisted by the RCMP Street Crime Unit and Halifax District RCMP general duty officers, executed a search warrant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two vehicles were seized and a 56-year-old Lower Sackville man, whose drug trafficking activities were targeting unhoused people in the Lower Sackville area, was arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;34&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate group=&#8221;6&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cpl. Tremblay said as the investigation continued, on January 8, RCMP officers executed a search warrant at a storage locker on Glendale Ave. in Lower Sackville; the storage locker was being rented by the man. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;During the search, RCMP officers located and seized a shotgun, 1.2 kg of cannabis pre-packaged for distribution and stolen power tools,&#8221; said Cpl. Tremblay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That same day, a second search warrant was executed on the man\u2019s camper that was seized and initially searched on January 5, after RCMP officers learned of a hidden storage compartment. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No additional items were seized.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ADVERTISEMENT:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;148&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;31&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;206&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Frank George Duffy, 56, faces additional charges, including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Careless Storage of a Firearm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Possession of a Firearm Contrary to a Prohibition Order<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Duffy, who was remanded into custody on January 5, will return to Dartmouth Provincial Court on January 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cpl. Tremblay said the investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>File #:\u00a023-154035, 24-2108<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;207&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;192&#8243;]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;126&#8243;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[adrotate banner=&#8221;188&#8243;] [adrotate banner=&#8221;105&#8243;] LOWER SACKVILLE: A man who reportedly once called the Fall River area home has had further charges brought against him after two more search warrants were executed in relation to a drug and weapons-offence investigation. Cpl. Guillaume Tremblay, with Halifax District RCMP, said that the force&#8217;s Community Action Response Team (CART) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17036,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,957],"tags":[3597,797,2,2025,13,14,4589,979],"class_list":["post-42051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","tag-drug-trafficking","tag-drugs","tag-fall-river","tag-homeless","tag-lower-sackville","tag-rcmp","tag-unhoused","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging-z.thelaker.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}