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Written by FRANK PEEBLES
Citizen staff
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Tuesday, 17 June 2008 |
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LOWER MAINLANDWILLIAMS LAKE
A man has been charged with more than 200 criminal offences after RCMP pulled over a vehicle containing 29 guns.
RCMP said the man was heading through the Prince George area Friday after a major gun theft from a store in Fort St. John and was on his way to organized crime contacts in the Lower Mainland.
Mounties caught up with him in Williams Lake.
"If those guns had made it to the street, who knows how they might have been used, but it wouldn't be for target sport shooting," said North District RCMP spokesman Const. Craig Douglass.
The episode goes back to May 21, when two suspects were arrested in Fort St. John for importing cocaine in quantities as large as a kilogram at a time. At the time of arrest they were in possession of 111 grams of powder and $4,700 cash.
That led to a search warrant for their home where another $37,000 in cash was located. Police also learned of a safety deposit box in Coquitlam that contained a further $40,000.
The arrest of the two suspects provided intelligence to fuel action against other people in the Fort St. John area.
On June 8 just before 4 a.m. came the Backcountry Sports break-in during which someone smashed inside by ramming a vehicle through the front facade of the store. The thief dumped the damaged vehicle, but escaped with 29 handguns.
Fort St. John police then arrested a suspected street dealer on June 10 with more than an ounce of cocaine on her person. A day later, two more Fort St. John dealers were busted, and that led to a search warrant on a pair of homes. Inside Mounties located:
- 385 grams of marijuana.
- 278 grams of cocaine.
- $38,943 cash.
- One loaded 9mm handgun.
According to Fort St. John RCMP, all of these activities are related, and a lot of dots were presented for investigators to connect. Mounties are not yet saying why, but it all pointed them to a vehicle in motion, heading south. It passed through Prince George and was pulled over near Williams Lake.
Court dates are pending for the suspect in possession of the guns as well as several others.
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