Four people charged with laundry list of firearms offenses

By CityNews Halifax Staff

Nova Scotia Mounties have charged four people with firearms related offenses in Cole Harbour.

On Wednesday at 5 a.m., officers executed a search warrant at a home on John Stewart Drive in connection to an ongoing investigation.

Police say they arrested three men and one woman, adding during their search, they seized a shotgun, a rifle, two handguns, ammunition, magazines, over a pound of cocaine, drug paraphernalia, electronic devices and over $60,000 in cash.

Emma Joan Findlay, 21, of Dartmouth, Matteo Warnell Simmonds, 18, of Cole Harbour, Traco Warnell Simmonds, 46, of Cole Harbour, and Dante Warnell Cromwell, 25, of Cole Harbour have all been charged with the following:

• Possession of a Controlled Substance (Cocaine) for the Purpose of Trafficking
• Possess, produce, sell, import or transport anything intending that it will be used
  to produce a controlled substance or traffic in a controlled substance
• Possession of Property Obtained by Crime
• Laundering Proceeds of Crime
• Possession of a Weapon for a Dangerous Purpose (four counts)
• Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm (four counts)
• Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized (four counts)
• Possession of Weapon Obtained by the Commission of an Offence (four counts)
• Careless Storage of a Firearm (four counts)
• Possession of Prohibited or Restricted Firearm with Ammunition (two counts)
• Possess a Firearm Knowing that the Serial Number has been Altered, Defaced or Removed

The investigation is ongoing.

The RCMP logo is seen outside the force’s ‘E’ division headquarters in Surrey, B.C., on Thursday, March 16, 2023. Nunavut RCMP have charged three women over a complaint they had used Inuit beneficiary status to defraud two organizations.THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck