Three people are facing drug trafficking-related charges after a home and a car were searched in Nova Scotia’s Pictou County earlier this week.
The Pictou County Integrated Street Crime Enforcement Unit and several other police units executed a search warrant at a home on Mountville Road in Mountville on Tuesday as part of an ongoing drug trafficking investigation.
Two women and a man were arrested at a home.
Police say they seized licence plates and cell phones during a search of the property.
Officers then conducted a targeted traffic stop of a Honda Civic travelling nearby on Mountville Road.
A man and three women inside the car were arrested.
Police say they seized cocaine, methamphetamine, diazepam, drug paraphernalia and cash while searching the car.
Justin Kenneth Coady, 42, John Gregory Gerrior, 34, and 33-year-old Katelyn Rose Kirk have been charged with:
- possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking
- possession of methamphetamine for the purpose of trafficking
- possession of diazepam for the purpose of trafficking
- possession of property obtained by crime
The two women arrested at the home were later released without charges as well two of the women in the Honda.
Coady and Gerrior were released on conditions and are scheduled to appear in Pictou provincial court on May 26.
Kirk was held in custody and released by the courts on conditions. She will also return to court on May 26.
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