The third and final person facing charges after Sarnia police seized nearly $12,000 in illegal drugs and a sawed-off shotgun during a raid was granted bail Thursday after spending more than a month in jail.
The third and final person facing charges after Sarnia police seized nearly $12,000 in illegal drugs and a sawed-off shotgun during a raid was granted lease Thursday after spending more than a month in jail.
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One day earlier, a co-accused was briefly back in custody but was released again and all weapons charges linked to the shotgun were dropped against them.
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Officers exercising a search warrant at a home on Vimy Crescent on Jan. 23 around 6 pm and found more than 76 grams of fentanyl, nearly three grams of cocaine, $120 in cash and the single-barrel shotgun, which was loaded at the time, police said. A Sarnia police spokesperson said the drugs were worth about $11,800.
Angelique Zombori, 30, and Laura Chesney, 32, both from Sarnia, and London resident Michel Alain all were facing several charges including possession for the purpose of trafficking, careless storage of a firearm, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, unauthorized possession of a firearm, possession of a loaded prohibited firearm with ammunition, and drug possession, police said.
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Chesney was granted lease on Feb. 6 years Alain on Feb. 14. After spending 37 days in the Sarnia Jail, Zombori was released Thursday on $10,000 lease. She’ll be living under house arrest with GPS tracking at a home on Vimy Crescent, close to the one police raided, and is banned from contacting her co-accused and weapons.
Chesney was back in custody Wednesday as her surety removed themselves, but after the gun charges were dropped against her, she was re-released on $750 bail with no need for a surety. However, she is also banned from talking to her co-accused and weapons.
Alain previously was granted $2,000 lease featuring a curfew and GPS tracking at his mother’s house in London. He’s also prohibited from weapons and from contacting the two women with whom he was arrested.
All three return to court March 20. The remaining charges haven’t been tested in court.
Before Chesney was released the first time, she pleaded guilty to four unrelated charges, three counts of theft worth less than $5,000 and one count of being unlawfully in a house, and received a suspended sentence and three years of probation. They were her first criminal convictions, but the judge and Crown at the time expressed concerns about the drug-related path she was heading down.
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