WINNIPEG – Police removed a large amount of drugs and a dealer from our streets after a search warrant was executed at a home on Spruce Street in Winnipeg.
On saturday police, with help from the Tactical Unit, arrested a 35-year-old and seized the following items:
- 2,903 grams of benzocaine (estimated street value of $500)
- 266 grams of cocaine (estimated street value of $20,000)
- 103 ¼ gram pieces of crack cocaine (estimated street value of $2,000)
- 70 grams of marijuana (estimated street value of $700)
- 158 Percocet pills (estimated street value of $780)
- 309 Gabapentin pills (estimated street value $3,100)
- Digital scales
- Numerous packaging materials
- Contaminated kitchen appliances/accessories
- Money counter
Police arrested Barry Allan Courchene, a 35-year-old man from Winnipeg, and charged him with:
- Possession of a Scheduled Substance for the Purpose of Trafficking – Cocaine
- Possession of a Scheduled Substance for the Purpose of Trafficking – Cannabis (Marihuana)
- Possession of a Scheduled Substance for the Purpose of Trafficking – Oxycodone
- Possession of a Scheduled Substance for the Purpose of Trafficking
- Produce a Scheduled Substance – Cocaine