Complaint of Erratic Driver Leads to Major Bust
Monday, December 10, 2012 @ 4:07 PM
Corporal Craig Douglass examines some of the items seized from a Beaverly area home. Photos – 250NEWS
Prince George, B.C. – A call to Prince George RCMP Saturday night started out as a complaint of an erratic driver, but by the end of the investigation, it turned into a major seizure of firearms and drugs.
Saturday night, two young women called police to say they had been forced off the road. Two general duty officers attended the scene, at which time the young women, ( one aged 23 the other 18) told the officers they had dropped of a young male at Beaverly area home so he could buy marijuana. The young women told the officers they believed their friend was being held against his will.
Officers obtained a warrant and attended the residence where they didn’t find the youth, but did find a variety of illegal property that would rival all the goods in the 12 Days of Christmas song:
- Thousands of rounds of ammunition,
- 12 thousand dollars in cash
- 30 pounds of marijuana
- 14 long guns, (3 that were confirmed stolen)
- 7 body armour vests
- 6.6 pounds of hashish
- 353 grams of magic mushrooms
- 3 hand guns
- one crossbow.
The two residents of the home, a 30 year old man, and 22 year old female, who are now facing many drug, weapons and stolen property related charges.
As police continued their investigation, they believe the scenario of events was more likely as follows and allege the two young women drove a youth to the home where he planned to break in to the residence to steal, not buy, marijuana. The youth has been arrested and is facing at least one Criminal code charge.
The two young women who originally called police are facing a charge of Public mischief for allegedly providing false information to police. A sixth person, a man who lives in the neighbourhood, may also be facing firearms charges.
Comments
Against the law to (allegedly) steal something that is against the law, eh? Most interesting.
And the Darwin award goes to…
Nice work by the RCMP!
…and drugs are harmless. LOL!! Definitely not members of Mensa.
The shallow end of the gene pool.
Only 3 of the 17 firearms were stolen, meaning the occupants of the house owned the other 14 legally? 7 pieces of body armour… Me thinks there are a lot more people involved who just happened to not be home at the time.
That’s a lot of product.
The big question is does macleans magazine include this as a city of prince george crime or a regional crime because the bust was in beaverly?
The second question is do they forfeit their house as proceeds of crime?
And the third question is if the courts seize the house as proceeds of crime and then sell it, does the money flow back to the city to help pay for some new officers that we so badly need?
Do the residents own the house? It doesn’t state that in the article.
Legalize it and stop supporting the criminal morons who are getting rich on a ditchweed!
Every time I hear someone say we need more law enforcement I think they are:
a) One of the many morons who are in this business, and need it to stay illegal so they can make lots more money
B} Just a plain garden variety moron.
18 Months Probation, and don’t let me see you in my court again, or I’ll be real tough!
LMAO at Criminal goofs!
Judges, please quit agreeing to crown/defence plea agreements, please hammer these fools.
That should teach the ladies who tateled taled on them to not do that since they got a criminal record aswell out of it
If god wanted POT to be illegal and demonized then it would have been the 11th. commandment.
They are showing it all off now, but in six months you will read a tiny blurb about it all getting thrown out of court.
Actually, Styxxx, only 29% of adult criminal cases are stayed, withdrawn, or dismissed. The odds are nearly 3-1 that the case will go to a verdict, and the great majority of verdicts are convictions.
psst wrote: “The big question is does macleans magazine include this as a city of prince george crime or a regional crime because the bust was in beaverly?”
It is the old problem of never beig told the details from the City, the RCMP, IPG, whoever….
In fact, I do not care that much about McLean’s. They use StatsCan information.
I care much more about the collection of taxes to pay for the police. Is this being paid for only by the City tax pool, or by the RDFFG tax pool, or the Provicial tax pool?
How much does the RCMP have to keep their cases separated in order to attribute the costs to various forces – city, regional, divisional?
Maybe the next trip to China Mayor Green should spend our tax dollars on advice on how to fight crime!!
I am glad they busted another bunch of low life criminals, not because they grow pot (for if pot was legal these criminals would be manufacturing some other kind of illegal substance), but because they are useless thugs that are a bane on society and good communities. Bust em all and clean it up!
I personally saw guy who got ripped off at a drug house, call the police and report it!
To Bill. First off stats mean nothing without citation. Second, a majority of cases are piddly charges performed by the same group, who usually plead guilty at the prelim. That would skew any stats.
A major bust where prison time or forfeiture of property is a likely consequence, you can bet a big buck lawyer will be hired….and just as has been reported recently, will find a procedural error in evidence gathering.
I would say given our local version of the keystone-kops, the chances are 3-1 that the case gets tossed.
HO,HO,HO
Some the penalties seem pretty harsh to me.
http://blog.thegooddrugsguide.com/0801/7-countries-you-dont-want-to-get-caught-with-drugs-in/
I wouldn’t mind some of china’s laws on drugs. That will scare the poop out of the local operators.
Somehow,I dont think the charges against the girls should have been made public. This certainly will make it a deterent for any future leads from the public.
That is a lot of drugs, i am pretty sure its not dogfood in the big brown bags.
If you are going to have 30 pounds of weed in your house then one would also need to have the weapons too, otherwise crack heads like the one the girls dropped off to rob the house will be coming, and those situations can easily turn deadly for the residents in the home.
The weed market is not going away and so long as it stays illegal there will be violence involved, so all the more reason to legalize it and remove the need for those in that trade to have those kinds of weapons in their homes. If its all above board everyone wins in society IMO. As it stands now there is a very high likelihood that this represents an escalation of potential violence (revenge or reprisal attacks against the two girls and would be thieves)… what bystanders will get caught in the cross fire is anyone’s guess. Its a cycle of violence society doesn’t need.
The two girls and the would be thief were operating on the assumption that they could commit crimes against the drug dealer because the drug dealer was operating outside the law… so much so that they even felt comfortable calling the police in for backup when their home invasion went sideways.
A few years back I remember there was a group going around doing grow op busts dressed as RCMP with balaclavas and using extreme violence once in the home… that ups the anti for those in the grow op business, and draws more weapons into the situation and ultimately more violence enabled.
IMO in a situation like this the two girls and the home invasion male should receive the tougher sentence, because its them and their ilk that bring out the violence in the drug trade. Smart move by the RCMP to not let them slip away as innocent.
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