6 people facing charges in Winnipeg drug bust
Posted January 3, 2025 12:49 pm.
Winnipeg police seized multiple weapons, including a crossbow and an “energy weapon,” and charged six people in connection to a drug investigation.
WPS says officers executed two search warrants at two different homes on Dec. 31 — one near Ross Avenue and Isabel Street, the other near Elgin Avenue and Isabel Street.
During the searches, police were able to find and seize the following items:
- Approximately $8,000 worth of crack cocaine
- Approximately $7,500 in Canadian currency
- Loaded Ruger 9mm handgun
- Loaded improvised firing device
- 2 replica handguns
- Conducted Energy Weapon (taser-style)
- Crossbow
- Body Armour
- Drug packaging materials
The six people taken into custody and face drug trafficking and weapons-related offences include two men aged 30 and 33, and a 33-year-old woman. They have not been named at this time.
The other three, 24-year-old Brent Scott McCaan, 28-year-old Dillion Riley Barker, and 38-year-old Allan Toss Thaxter, have been charged with 20 combined charges including possession of a scheduled substance for the purpose of trafficking and failing to comply with conditions of a release order.
