Police will be looking for links between a trove of firearms seized when the son of a now-dead gangster was arrested over the weekend and a series of recent shootings, Prince George RCMP said Wednesday.
Ryan John Moore, 25, whose father was William "Billy" Moore, was arrested Saturday after RCMP were called to a report of a domestic disturbance at a Lorne Crescent home. Kathleen Rose Slater, 26, was also arrested.
After subsequently obtaining search warrants, RCMP seized four handguns - two fully loaded and one with a silencer - along with three long guns with ammunition, various bags of ammunition;
two cans of bear spray and brass knuckles.
Closed circuit cameras, a large amount of cash, four cell phones, illicit drugs including methamphetamine, cocaine and marijuana and drug trafficking paraphernalia were also among the items seized.
"Investigators will be looking into the possibility that these weapons have been used in other offences including the recent spike in shootings in Prince George," RCMP said in a statement.
Both Moore and Slater have been charged with several firearms and drug related offences.
Police described Moore as a "high priority offender."
His father was the president of the Prince George Renegades Motorcycle Club who was shot to death in 2005 in an apparent gang-related execution. No one has been arrested for the murder.
Court records indicate Slater hails from Surrey where, according to the Surrey Now, she was one of two people arrested in 2011 in relation to the seizure a small arsenal of guns and ammo from a pair of storage units.
