B.C. man charged after drugs, 3D-printed guns seized on Vancouver Island
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A Victoria-area man is facing more than a dozen drug and weapons charges after a series of co-ordinated police raids on Vancouver Island turned up 3D-printed handguns and several kilograms of drugs.
A Victoria-area man is facing more than a dozen drug and weapons charges after a series of co-ordinated police raids on Vancouver Island turned up 3D-printed handguns and several kilograms of drugs.
James Mathew Lamont, born in 1991, was one of seven suspects arrested when police searched four residential properties in the Cowichan Valley and Sooke earlier this year.
He was charged in Port Alberni provincial court Monday with 20 offences, including 11 counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking, and multiple firearm offences.
He was held in custody pending his next court appearance scheduled for Friday.
Authorities say the investigation began last November and targeted mid-level drug trafficking in the Cowichan Valley area.
The probe eventually led to the searches of three residences in the Duncan area and one home in Sooke on March 12 and March 19.
During the searches, police seized an estimated three kilograms of suspected fentanyl, two kilograms of suspected methamphetamine and one and a half kilograms of suspected cocaine, the RCMP said in a news release in April.
