Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Five Arrested in OPP Drug Busts


Five Rainy River district residents face drug charges following separate drug busts last month.

In one case, Provincial Police seized over $37-thousand worth of drugs, including 36 marijuana plants, a quantity of marijuana bud and a quantity of prescription pills from two homes in LaVallee township and Chapple township last Thursday.

A 26-year-old woman and a 31-year-old man from LaVallee township each face production charges.

A 27-year-old man and a 23-year-old woman, from Potts Township, face charges of possession and Insecure storage of a firearm.

In a separate incident, an area man will appear in a Fort Frances court room next month on possession charges.

He was arrested on February 15 in Couchiching First Nations with several Oxycontin pills in his possession.

OPP says the man did not have a prescription for the drugs.