Drug investigation leads to charges

Drug investigation leads to charges

Three people are facing charges after police on Six Nations of the Grand River searched two homes on River Range Road on June 24.

Police said they seized a loaded 9 mm handgun, a loaded homemade prohibited firearm, about $8,000 in fentanyl, currency, ammunition, cellphones and a digital scale at one home, and drug paraphernalia and a replica handgun at the other.

Police said a 27-year-old Ohsweken man and an 18-year-old Toronto man are each charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking fentanyl, two counts of unauthorized possession of a firearm and unauthorized possession of a prohibited weapon, careless use of firearm, weapon and/or ammunition and having proceeds of crime under $5,000. The Ohsweken man is also charged with multiple counts of failing to comply with a release order and breach of probation.

A 30-year-old Ohsweken man is charged with failing to comply with undertaking conditions and breach of probation.

Police said a man was seen jumping from a window of one the homes. He was caught nearby. A second man was arrested inside the home.

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