Adam Prudhomme
Editor
Lennox and Addington County OPP continued to crackdown on drug trafficking this week, announcing their second major narcotic seizure in the last two weeks.
A search warrant was carried out early Tuesday morning at a residence in Greater Napanee, resulting in six arrests.
Among the charged with possession of cocaine, other drugs and stolen property were a 29-year-old man of Napanee, a 32-year-old woman of Loyalist Township, a 39-year-old man of Napanee and a 22-year-old woman of Quinte West.
Charged with possession of opioids, other drugs and two counts of stolen property under $5,000 were a 50-year-old woman of Napanee and a 37-year-old woman of Napanee.
“There’s over $4,000 worth of crystal meth, which is the biggest seizure we’ve had in 2019 so far,” said L&A County OPP detachment commander Insp. Scott Semple. “Excellent work by our community street team unit to put together and execute two search warrants (Tuesday) morning.”
They are all scheduled to appear before the courts at a later date.
The suspects were known to police.
“Because of the threat level with the people involved, history of violence and firearms, we called our tactical team to execute the search warrant, supported by our emergency response team and our uniformed members in L&A as well as our community street team unit,” added the detachment commander.
Semple Tuesday’s raid, as well as one carried out Sunday which saw a 22 and 19-year-old from Napanee arrested for possession of methamphetamine and stolen property, is part of an ongoing effort to combat an area of concern in Napanee. Semple says by slowing the illegal drug market, they’ll also likely solve some of the issues with stolen property as the two crimes are often linked.
“It’s a substantial dent in the ongoing concern of methamphetamines being sold in our community,” said Semple.”This is really victimizing people in the community that are vulnerable with addictions. We really want to encourage people that are struggling to reach out to Addictions and Mental Health (Services).”