Guelph police say a 35-year-old man is facing a dozen charges in connection with several investigations in the downtown core within the last three weeks.
In a news release on Thursday, the service said its BEAT (Break Enter Auto Theft) unit arrested the man at a downtown address the previous afternoon.
The accused had been wanted on four different arrest warrants, beginning with a drugs and weapons investigation that led to a search warrant being carried out on Jan. 19.
Police previously said that officers seized a restricted gun along with a number of firearms and weapons at a downtown apartment building unit. They also found $6,000 worth of cocaine, fentanyl, crystal meth and hydromorphone pills.
Two men in their 30s and a 40-year-old woman were arrested at the time and a 23-year-old was arrested on Monday.
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Police said the man arrested by the BEAT unit on Wednesday is facing weapons charges in connection with that investigation.
He is also charged in connection with a Jan. 28 break-in at the Sleeman Centre, where someone spent the night sleeping in a utility room and left before police arrived.
Further charges laid against him are linked to a vehicle theft on Tuesday after a woman reported her Toyota SUV had been stolen while she volunteered for a downtown social service agency.
Police said they have also linked the man to a pair of break-ins at two other downtown businesses last week.
The four warrants have led to 12 charges against the man, including three counts of break and enter, theft of a motor vehicle, two counts of breaching probation, and several weapons offences.
He remains in custody and was scheduled to have a bail hearing on Thursday.
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