THUNDER BAY - Police have charged four people with drug and weapon related offences following a search of a north side apartment.
According to Thunder Bay Police Service media release, officers, with the assistance of the Ontario Provincial Police, executed a search warrant at a Secord Street apartment on Tuesday just after 4:30 p.m.
Officers seized a loaded handgun, 20 grams of a substance believed to be Fentanyl, 14 grams of a substance believed to be crack cocaine, six grams of cocaine, and more than $11,000 in cash.
Police arrested 23-year-old Juquan Goulbourne and 36-year-old Orane Warwyk West of Toronto, as well as 41-year-old Newton Dominique Mamakeesic and 19-year-old Donna Chantel Wabasse of Thunder Bay.
Police said Goulbourne and West are known members of a Toronto-area gang.
The four are all charged with two counts of possession of a schedule 1 substance for the purpose of trafficking, possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000, careless storage of a firearm, knowledge of unauthorized possession of a weapon, unauthorized possession of a firearm, and prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition.
All four accused appeared in court on Wednesday and have been remanded into custody.
