A man is facing charges after officers seized drugs, loaded weapons and ammunition during searches of a vehicle and a home, said Chatham-Kent police.
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On Tuesday, just before 1:30 p.m., police arrested a man driving a black Volkswagen Tiguan SUV during a traffic stop that stemmed from a drug investigation, police said.
A search of the vehicle located a loaded .40-caliber Glock handgun, 129 grams of cocaine, six oxycodone tables and a digital scale.
Just before 2 pm, officers searched the man’s Pearl Crescent residence in Chatham and seized a loaded .22 caliber revolver handgun, numerous rounds of ammunition, eight grams of methamphetamine, 0.7 grams of fentanyl, 1.4 grams of cocaine, 15 codeine tablets, 26 clonazepam tablets, 47 tabs of lysergic acid and debt lists.
The total street value of the drugs is estimated as $13,000, police said.
A 42-year-old man is charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking, police said.
The man also is charged with five counts of possession of substances under the Controlled Drug and Substances Act, that include fentanyl, methamphetamine, oxycodone, clonazepam – a medication used to treat anxiety disorders, and lysergic acid diethylamide – the psychedelic drug known as LSD, police said.
The man is being held in custody pending a bail hearing, police said.
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