$2-million drug
bust in Windsor-Essex
By Frances Willick, The Windsor
Star
WINDSOR, Ont. --
Six local men have been arrested and police have arrest warrants for five
others after a seizure of ecstasy, cocaine and pot valued at $2 million.
Windsor police and the Ontario Provincial Police arrested the men after a
series of raids on nine homes in Windsor and Tecumseh on Wednesday night and
Thursday morning.
Police seized about 200,000 tablets of ecstasy, 1,000 grams of cocaine, nine
kilograms of marijuana, $17,000 in Canadian and U.S. currency, four vehicles
and one long gun.
"It's considerable," said Windsor police Insp. Randy Gould of the seizure.
"It's certainly not the largest that's been made, but we were satisfied with
the amounts we were getting over the time of the project.
Hopefully it's enough to put a dent in the trade for a little bit, between
the drugs on the street and the dealers and keeping them out of the system
for a while."
Gould said the group was well organized and had a "fairly sophisticated" way
of doing business, though he declined to give details about their operation.
Police investigated the drug ring over a period of about eight months and
carried out search warrants in Windsor and Tecumseh on the following
streets: Riverside Drive, Osborn Crescent, Cobblestone Crescent, Longfellow
Avenue, Morris Drive, Bloomfield Road, North Service Road, Heatherglen Drive
and Deslippe Drive.
The street value of the drugs represents nearly half the total value of
illegal drugs seized by Windsor police last year. In 2010, police seized
$4.1 million worth of drugs, more than double the previous year's amount of
$1.8 million in 2009.
Six men have been arrested and charged, including: Cameron Davy, 41; Saverio
Deluca, 40; John Fabos, 38; An-Van Ngo, 21; Michael Minnis, 31, all of
Windsor and Saroop Singh Pahal, 22, of Tecumseh.
Police have arrest warrants for: Harpinder Sian, 28; Srdjan Ljumovic, 25;
Van Duc Cao, 48, all of Windsor, and Alexander Uros Zonjic, 18, and
Gurfathe Kooner, 25, both of Tecumseh.
Kooner was charged with firearms offences in 2009 after he tossed a plastic
bag containing two handguns and ammunition out the window of a vehicle he
was driving while police were chasing him. He was arrested at gunpoint in
what police described as a "high-risk" takedown.
Alexander Uros Zonjic is a distant relative of Windsor flutist Alexander
Zonjic.
The 37 charges include drug related offences as
well as breach of court order, possession of property obtained by crime and
firearm offences.
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Driver faces firearm charges
The Windsor Star
Published: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
Tactical officers arrested a man at gunpoint
last Thursday after he tossed two handguns out the window of his truck as
police were chasing him.
Police said they received information that the man had a handgun. At 10:50
p.m. police saw the man driving a pickup truck in the 10500 block of
Mulberry Drive.
When the officers hit their emergency lights, the man threw a green shopping
bag out the passenger window of his truck. The bag landed on a curb in front
of a house and the man kept driving.
Police said he stopped in the 10400 block of Mulberry, where he was
arrested. Officers retrieved the bag and found two semi-automatic handguns
and ammunition inside.
Gurfathe Kooner, 24, of Tecumseh, is facing charges of breaching probation,
possession of a firearm without authorization and occupying a motor vehicle
with a firearm.
Source:
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The Ontario Provincial
Police Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau and Windsor Police Service
concluded an eight-month drug investigation which involved the execution
of nine search warrants and numerous arrests. |
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