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ALERT gets drugs and guns off street during Red Deer seizure

An investigation by Alberta's Law Enforcement Response Team (ALERT) into drug trafficking in Fort McMurray has resulted in charges against one person and multiple drugs and guns seized from a home in the city. File/Global News

Alberta Law Enforcement Response Teams arrested two people and seized guns and drugs in downtown Red Deer.

On May 19, ALERT and RCMP searched a home in the 4900-block of 54 Street where they said the following weapons and drugs were seized:

  • SKS semi-automatic carbine with collapsible stock
  • .308-caliber semi-automatic rifle
  • 7 mm rifle
  • 12 gauge shotgun
  • Body armour
  • 9 grams of cocaine
  • 98 suspected codeine pills
  • $980 cash
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ALERT said the guns were illegally possessed and will now go through forensic analysis to find out if they were used in previous crimes.

“This was a short-term investigation that will have a sizeable public safety impact. An arsenal such as this does not belong in the hands of drug dealers,” ALERT Insp. Chad Coles said.

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Twenty-two-year-old Landon Dorval and 26-year-old Brittany Aebly have been charged with two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, four counts of careless storage of a firearm, four counts of unauthorized possession of a firearm and four counts of a firearm for a dangerous purpose.

Dorval and Aebly were released and are scheduled to appear in court July 7.

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