A Sarnia woman in jail facing charges linked to two separate drug busts from earlier this year is now facing an additional charge after Sarnia police found more than $132,000 in cash in a storage locker.
A Sarnia woman in jail facing charges linked to two separate drug busts from earlier this year is now facing an additional charge after Sarnia police found more than $132,000 in cash in a storage locker.
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Shelly Campbell, 63, was one of two women charged with trafficking after police said officers seized an estimated $13,000 in drugs during a March 27 search of a Cotterbury Street home. They both got bail, but Campbell was arrested on new trafficking charges after police said officers raided a home on Conrad Street and an east Sarnia motel on Oct. 22 and found drugs worth nearly $6,000.
In an update issued Thursday, Sarnia police said they searched a storage locker on Devine Street they believe is linked to Campbell and discovered almost $132,200 in cash. “Which is believed to be proceeds of drug trafficking,” police said.
A new charge of possessing property obtained by crime worth more than $5,000 was laid Thursday, police said.
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Campbell was scheduled to make a brief appearance in court Thursday morning by video link from the Sarnia Jail, but she was instead brought to the courthouse later that day to be arrested on the new charge. All of her charges were adjourned to Tuesday, where she’s expected to have another bail hearing.
In the first case, officers searched a home in the 100 block of Cotterbury Street on March 27 and allegedly seized fentanyl, cocaine, crystal methamphetamine, ecstasy, large quantities of prescription opioids, and more than $2,000 in Canadian and US cash, police said at the time.
Campbell and Nathalie Landry-Sutherland, 59, were both arrested and charged with six counts of possessing drugs for trafficking and possessing property obtained by crime, police said.
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In the second case, officers searching the home on Conrad Street and the East Court Motel on Oct. 22 allegedly found nearly 113 grams of methamphetamine worth nearly $6,000 and almost $2,000 in cash, police said.
Campbell was charged with possessing meth for the purpose of trafficking, possessing property obtained by crime worth more than $5,000, and two counts of breaching lease, police said. She’s been in jail since then.
Campbell is banned from talking to two people, including Landry-Sutherland, while she’s in custody. Landry-Sutherland, who also is barred from communicating with Campbell while out on bail, is due back in court on Dec. 11.
None of the charges against either woman have been tested in court.
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