RCMP arrest Lower Sackville man for drug, weapon offences

By CityNews Halifax Staff

Halifax RCMP have arrested a man for multiple drug and weapons offences.

Mounties say their Community Action Response Team received information last month that a man was trafficking drugs and targeting unhoused people in Lower Sackville.

According to police, the man was selling drugs in exchange for cash or bartered items, such as gift cards, from a camper he had parked on public property on Cobequid Rd.

The 56-year-old Lower Sackville man was safely arrested Friday morning as he was driving back to the camper in a Ford pickup truck.

During a search of the vehicles, police say they found and seized items such as cocaine, pills, a conducted energy weapon, a crossbow, replica firearms, ammunition, sensory irritant, cash, gift cards and unstamped tobacco.

The man was scheduled to appear in Halifax Provincial Court later on Friday to face numerous charges including:

• Possession of Cocaine for the Purpose of Trafficking
• Possession of property obtained by crime
• Possession of a prohibited weapon knowing its possession is unauthorized (two counts)
• Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
• Possession of a weapon obtained by the commission of an offence

Police say the investigation is ongoing.