A 38-year-old man from Valley East was one of three people facing numerous drug and weapons charges after the Ontario Provincial Police responded to a call of a suspected impaired driver.
OPP officers responded to a call on Sept. 6 around 1 p.m. They found a vehicle in a parking lot on Magnetawan First Nation. After speaking with the driver, officers concluded the driver was under the influence of a drug. The driver was arrested and taken to police headquarters for further testing.
Officers seized drugs including suspected cocaine, methamphetamine, psilocybin mushrooms and marijuana.
Officers also seized black brass knuckles, a butterfly knife, two blue swords with sheaths, a machete, an aluminium baseball bat, pepper spray, two folding knives, dynamite, an electric blasting cap and a non-electric blasting cap, and more than $10,000 in Canadian currency.
The driver, a 42-year-old from Cleland Township, is charged with operation while impaired - alcohol and drugs.
The driver, as well as the Valley East man and a 40-year-old woman from North Bay are charged with possession of a prohibited device or ammunition, explosives making or possessing for unlawful purpose, possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000, possession of a schedule I substance for the purpose of trafficking, and possession of a schedule III substance for the purpose of trafficking.
The driver and the Valley East man are being held in custody and scheduled to appear in bail court at the Ontario Court of Justice in Parry Sound on Sept. 8.
The North Bay woman will appear in court at a later date.
