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Drugs, ammunition stash found during Guelph’s annual spring cleanup

Guelph Police. Global News File

Guelph police say a group of volunteers made a concerning discovery on Saturday as part of the city’s annual Clean and Green community cleanup.

Officers were called to Grange Road Park after a group found a large stash of drugs and shotgun ammunition.

Const. Chris Probst said they found 130 unspent 12 gauge shotgun shells as well as drugs, including marijuana, crack, heroin and acid.

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The drugs have an estimated value of $7,000, according to Probst.

“It’s a very big concern,” Probst said. “It’s a park [and] there’s good potential of children being in the park and stumbling across these items. We certainly don’t want that.”
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He added it’s difficult to tell how long the items had been there for, but because the drugs had not shown too much decay, he estimated they were recently left there.

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Probst said another significant concern comes from the recent threat of fatal opioids, such as fentanyl or carfentanil.

“In this case, fentanyl wasn’t there [but] recently there has been other [police] services that have engaged in investigations where carfentanil was found and such a minute amount of carfentanil can result in very serious injuries or even death,” Probst explained.

He urged anyone to always stay back and call police immediately if a similar discovery is made.

Anyone with information into the investigation is asked to call police at 519-824-1212 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.

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