A Walpole Island man already facing a long list of drugs and weapons charges was arrested Thursday on a raft of new charges.
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Richard Hinojosa, who was arrested twice in a three-day span in March 2023 and charged with a dozen criminal offenses, appeared in a Sarnia courtroom Thursday afternoon on 18 new charges linked to drugs and firearms. Hinojosa, who repeatedly yawned while sitting in the prisoner’s box, said little before all of his cases were adjourned to Wednesday. He’ll be kept in jail until then and is banned from talking to five people.
A Lambton OPP police officer didn’t immediately respond Friday to a request for information about Hinojosa’s latest arrest.
Police previously said Hinojosa, 58, was charged with drug trafficking, two counts of drug possession, possessing stolen property, possessing a banned or restricted firearm, possessing a banned or restricted firearm with ammunition, possessing a firearm knowing the serial number had been tampered with , resisting police, obstructing police, fleeing police, and two counts of breaching an undertaking following back-to-back incidents.
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The initial arrest occurred on March 3, 2023 around 3 pm, when officers pulled over a vehicle with stolen license plates, police said. They found suspected fentanyl during the traffic stop, they said.
The second arrest took place on March 6, 2023 at 9:30 pm, when local First Nation police tried to stop an un-plated car on River Road. The vehicle fled to a nearby home, where police arrested the driver and found a loaded firearm and suspected fentanyl, police said.
Lambton OPP have been targeting drug trafficking on Walpole Island, a small First Nation community between Sarnia and Chatham, after officials there declared a state of emergency in 2021 due to drug overdoses.
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