Winnipeg man facing 77 drug trafficking and gun charges: WPS - BERITAJA

Twenty-one loaded handguns, about 200 rounds of ammunition and forbidden add-ons – including a silencer – were seized from Winnipeg’s Central Park neighbourhood, starring to 1 man’s arrest, constabulary said.

In summation to those items, $25,000 successful cash, 27 grams of cocaine — which would beryllium worthy $2,700 if sold — and electronics were seized by constabulary connected May 7, Insp. Josh Ewatski pinch the Winnipeg Police Service’s organized crime section told reporters astatine a news convention connected Monday.

“Investigators besides located grounds indicating that a firearm had been discharged from wrong the suite, and the information had struck a religion crossed the street” from the Cumberland Avenue flat building, Ewatski added.

Officers discovered the information had struck the religion aft executing a hunt warrant by tracing the bullet’s way earlier this month, he said.

“By seizing these firearms, the organized crime portion members person [possibly] prevented galore shootings, including homicides – not only successful Winnipeg and Manitoba, but passim Canada,” Ewatski said.

“As we’ve learned that galore of these firearms are trafficked wrong the state and crossed the state either earlier aliases aft being used.”

Investigations are ongoing into whether immoderate of the guns confiscated by constabulary were utilized successful different crimes crossed Canada, the inspector continued.

“We’re attempting to trace them to determine where they’ve come from. It’s possible that they person been utilized successful different offences, but we don’t know that for judge yet,” Ewatski told reporters.

“Once these firearms are used, often we’ll spot that they’ve been sold again. We’ve had firearms utilized successful a shooting successful Winnipeg and past that aforesaid firearm is utilized successful a shooting successful B.C., and it’s the aforesaid going eastbound arsenic well.”

Other items seized by constabulary included rate and cocaine, the WPS said.

The 24-year-old man arrested by constabulary is besides accused of trading cocaine in several northern Manitoban communities, wherever the profit margins are precocious and the title is slim.

“Drugs travel from different areas of the state to Winnipeg and past are shipped to bluish communities. And past they waste those narcotics astatine doubly the thoroughfare worth that you would usually spot wrong Winnipeg,” Ewatski said.

The accused Winnipeg man is facing 77 firearm and supplier trafficking-related charges, the inspector added.

His firearm charges see 21 counts of possession of a prohibited firearm, 22 counts of sloppy retention of a firearm, and 1 count of possession for the intent of limb trafficking, the WPS said.

So acold successful 2026, six gun-related homicides person been reported successful Winnipeg, according to the inspector. He besides said the metropolis has seen 42 shootings, 13 of which progressive personification being shot.