FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, April 14, 2017
(Ottawa) – The OPS Guns & Gangs Unit has wrapped up a month long street gang, drug and firearms investigation. In the early morning hours on the 14th day of April 2017, multiple search warrants were executed in the 100 block of Beech Street. As a result 13 people were arrested. Cocaine, cannabis marihuana, prescription pills, MDA, crystal methamphetamine and powdered Fentanyl was seized. A taser was also located in one of the residences.
Multiple drug and weapons charges were laid in relation to nine of the arrested people. Three of the arrested people were subsequently released without being charged and one person was held on outstanding arrest warrants. The investigation is still ongoing, and as a result, no names will be released at this time.
Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-222-8477 (TIPS), or by downloading the Ottawa Police app.
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CONTACT:
Guns & Gangs Unit
Tel: 613-236-1222, ext. 5050