A Brampton driver, 27, was charged this week when northern Ontario police stopped the SUV he was driving on Freeway 17 after a reported capturing and located greater than $100,000 in money.
The East Algoma detachment acquired a weapons grievance involving a white SUV after photographs have been allegedly fired from the automobile at one other unknown automobile on the freeway west of Iron Bridge, Ontario Provincial Police mentioned in a information launch Friday.
The capturing occurred round 2:30 p.m. Sept. 18 and the white SUV fled the scene heading east.
Officers with the Manitoulin detachment noticed the suspect automobile close to the City of Massey, about 95 kilometres away.
Round 3:45 p.m., OPP and Anishinabek Police Companies arrested the motive force and passenger throughout a “high-risk” takedown.
“Each people and the automobile have been searched with police seizing Canadian forex within the quantity of $272 from the motive force, $3,000 from the passenger and $100,000 within the automobile, three cellphones, a small quantity of hashish marijuana, drug paraphernalia in addition to the SUV,” OPP mentioned.
The motive force is charged with driving a automobile with hashish available and failing to adjust to a launch order aside from to attend court docket.
He was remanded following a bail listening to in Espanola on Thursday.
“The investigation is continuous,” OPP mentioned.
“Anybody with data relating to this investigation is requested to please contact the East Algoma OPP at 1-888-310-1122. Must you want to stay nameless, you could contact Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIPS (8477) or saultcrimestoppers.com, the place you could be eligible to obtain a money reward of as much as $2,000.”
Members of the OPP emergency response workforce looked for proof alongside the freeway between Iron Bridge and Thessalon and weren’t capable of finding a firearm, Const. Bev Gauthier instructed CTVNewsNorthernOntario.ca in an e-mail.
“No gun was within the automobile,” Gauthier mentioned.
“(It’s) unknown at the moment who was the shooter.”
The passenger was launched with out charges, she mentioned.
