$18K worth of drugs seized in Wawa: OPP
Jan 26, 2021 11:54 AM By: SooToday Staff
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Two individuals face a number of drug and weapons charges after police seized suspected cocaine, methamphetamine, opioids and cannabis during the execution of a search warrant in Wawa.
A news release issued today by the North East Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) states that officers searched the Mackey Street residence on Friday afternoon.
The estimated value of the drugs seized is $18,000.
Full text of the OPP news release follows:
WAWA - On Jan. 22, 2021 at approximately 2 p.m., members of the North East Region Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Community Street Crime Unit (CSCU), with the assistance of the OPP Emergency Response Team (ERT) and Canine Unit, executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act (CDSA) search warrant at a residence on Mackey Street in Wawa.
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A 14-year-old male youth from Pembroke is facing weapons charges related to an incident that occurred in Petawawa on Dec. 9.
Around 8:30 p.m. that day, members of the Upper Ottawa Valley (UOV) Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) began investigating after a female teenager was shot with an air pistol by an occupant of a motor vehicle. The incident took place on Victoria Street in Petawawa after a verbal altercation between the occupants of a motor vehicle and youths who were on foot. The vehicle fled the scene and the victim attended hospital with non-life threatening injuries.