On October 26 and 29, the Nishnawbe-Aski Police Service Drug Enforcement Unit assisted by the NAPS North West Crime Unit, the Organized Crime Enforcement Unit, and the Ontario Provincial Police Sioux Lookout Detachment investigated and charged two people with regard to drug trafficking of Morphine and Marihuana from Thunder Bay to Cat Lake First Nation.
On October 26 police seized Morphine prescription pills and Marihuana with a northern street value of $14,395 dollars.
Forty-five year-old Harry Wesley of Cat Lake First Nation was arrested and charged under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act with Possession of a Controlled Substance for the Purpose of Trafficking. Wesley was released on conditions and will next appear in court in Sioux Lookout on December 11, 2012.
Also, on October 29, 2012, investigation led police to another seizure of Morphine prescription pills with a northern street value of one thousand eight-hundred ($1,800.00) dollars.
Twenty-five year-old Star Kenequenash of Cat Lake First Nation was arrested and charged under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act with Possession of a Controlled Substance. Kenequenash was released on conditions and will next appear in court in Sioux Lookout on December 4.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
When I was a boy growing up in my home community of Attawapiskat on the James Bay coast, I was deathly afraid of looking at the full moon.
I grew up...
I’m happy to see the ongoing support and assistance in our northern remote communities to help our people cope with so many lifelong and generational issues...