One of eight people facing charges linked to a $47,000 drug bust in a joint raid in Sarnia and Corunna earlier this summer is back in jail after being arrested again this week on new trafficking charges.
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Lil-Star Nahmabin, 46, was one of three people arrested after Sarnia police seized various drugs during back-to-back July 17 searches on Cameron Street in Corunna and at The Gables Inn in Sarnia. The list of accused later grew to eight, with all of them eventually getting lease.
But Nahmabin made the Oct. 16 edition of the Sarnia police Wanted Wednesday list on three new drug trafficking charges and one count of breaching probation. The charges are linked to fentanyl, meth, and codeine, court records show.
The drugs were allegedly discovered after Sarnia police went to Aamjiwnaang First Nation to investigate stolen snowmobiles on Sept. 26. A 53-year-old Sarnia man was charged with possession of stolen property worth more than $5,000 after the snowmobiles were found in a sea can on the property.
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Shortly after, officers allegedly found 46 codeine pills, 23 grams of meth and 37 grams of fentanyl worth a combined $6,000, Sarnia police said Friday. Nahmabin, who has not been charged in connection to the snowmobiles, fled, police said.
But on Wednesday, three weeks after the police’s social media post where they asked for the public to help find Nahmabin, she appeared in a Sarnia courtroom’s prisoner’s box on the latest charges. She was kept in custody and will appear in court from the Sarnia Jail again next week.
She is the lone person charged in the latest trafficking case.
Police said in July officers seized an estimated $47,000 in drugs including nearly 354 grams of crystal meth, seven grams of cocaine, 53 grams of fentanyl, 63 morphine and two hydromorphone tablets, and more than $2,200 cash. Nahmabin, Robin Maness, 44, Ashleigh Quinlin, 42, Stacey O’Hanlon, 34, Joseph Calver, 67, Joel Poolman, 40, James Stafford and Tarrin Wright, all of Sarnia, were charged and later got lease.
But in addition to Nahmabin, Maness is also back in jail as he was one of three people charged in September with first-degree murder in the death of Brad Ogilvie, 41, of Sarnia, who was reported missing a year ago.
Additionally, Wright is now wanted again on a bench warrant, records show.
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