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Tuesday September 22 2015 3 JUSTICE SMUGGLING EDMONTON AB ALL Meetings held at the Chateau Nova Grand Room General Meeting Sept 2115 700 pm ACDEN Meeting Sept 2215 900 am ACFN-IRC Meeting Sept 2215 100 pm FORT MCMURRAY AB ALL Meetings held at the Stonebridge Clearwater Room General Meeting Sept 2315 700 pm ACDEN Meeting Sept 2415 900 am ACFN-IRC Meeting Sept 2415 100 pm FORT CHIPEWYAN AB ALL Meetings held at the EY Lodge General Meeting Sept 2815 700 pm ACDEN Meeting Sept 2915 900 am ACFN-IRC Meeting Sept 2915 100 pm FORT SMITH NT ALL Meetings held at the Meeting Room 182A McDougal Rd. General Meeting Sep 3015 700 pm ACDEN Meeting Oct 115 900 am ACFN-IRC Meeting Oct 115 100 pm NOTICEOF MEETING DATES FOR ATHABASCA CHIPEWYAN FIRST NATION MEMBERS Refreshments will be served. Wishing you an awe-inspiring golden birthday lots of love your family Wishing you an awe-inspiring golden birthday lots of love your familyyour familyy Wishing you an awe-inspiring golden birthday lots of love your Family happy Five perFect tens day to our wonderful father grandfather husband and best friend happy Five perFect tens day to our wonderful father grandfather husband and best friend happy Five perFect tens day to our wonderful father grandfather husband and best friend BY CRAIG GILBERT The best part of waking up is Folgers in your cup the old jingle goes. Substitute a mug of coffee for a carafe stuffed with a half-pound of weed and a box of cereal containing a similar haul and that is the kind of week NWT RCMP had. Between Sept. 11 and 14 police seized smug- gled marijuana and alcohol in four separate busts at the Yellowknife and Tulita airports. Constable Elenore Sturko said busts sometimes occur in clusters but not all are announced in press releases. The seizure stream is relatively steady with officers finding contraband routinely through- out the NWT and ingenuity is rarely in short supply. If you can imagine a creative way some- one would use to attempt to smuggle theres a good chance someone really is doing that Sturko said. Although interesting its sad the lengths to which people go to support illegal alcohol in their communities. On Sept. 11 ofcers found 181 grams of marijuana in a cereal box packed with other supplies destined for Lutselke and six bottles of vodka in another package being shipped to Gameti in the same Yellowknife hangar just hours later. The boxed up coffee-maker with 196 grams of marijuana in seven individual bags in- side was discovered at Tulitas airport on Sept. 14. A 22-year-old Tulita woman was charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking. RCMP are aware of attempts to smug- gle illicit substances into town using boats and airplanes Sturko wrote in a press re- lease. Drug trafficking is a problem that creates many spin-off crimes and affects all Northerners and police will continue enforcement in all areas of transportation in which illicit drugs make their way into the community. The RCMP have also seized Five Alive also destined for Lutselke laundry deter- gent bottles lled with booze and dozens of over-ration alcohol destined for or within restricted communities including Behchoko Deline and Fort McPherson since the start of August. Charges havent been laid in those ongoing investigations. Sturko wouldnt reveal the tactics or tech- niques ofcers use to counter smuggling. We want to keep those investigative tac- tics viable she said. Those restrictions are in place because the communities see drug and alcohol abuse as a concern and the RCMP will continue to work with them to enforce the territorial liquor law. Stabbings machine guns drugs and multiple arrests Meanwhile police are busy making arrests in the Municipality of Wood Buffalo. During the early morning hours of Sept. 13 FortChipewyanRCMPrespondedtocomplaints ofapossiblestabbingontheDogheadReserve. A female victim was located and transported by emergency medical services then airlifted to hospital in Edmonton. She had serious but non life-threatening injuries. Amalesuspectwaslocatedashorttimelater and taken into custody. A search warrant was executedattheresidencewherethesuspectwas arrested.DaltonVermillion20amaleresident of Fort McMurray has been charged with mul- tiple Criminal Code infractions including ag- gravated assault in relation to the incident and has been remanded in custody. OnSept.10policeexecutedasearchwarrant ataresidenceonLoutitRoadresultinginseveral charges being laid against 35-year-old Clayton Vickers. The charges are as follows Two counts each possession of a restricted rearm unauthorized possession of a rearm unsafe storage of a rearm possession for the purpose of trafcking One count each possession of marijuana possession of property obtained by crime fail to comply with an undertaking About 10 grams of marijuana a 9mm pistol a machine gun and an undisclosed amount of cocaine and cash were seized. McMurray police also executed a search warrant at an Elmore Drive residence on Sept. 11 resulting in the arrest of three men. They seized approximately four ounces of cocaine 3400 in cash and undisclosed property from some recent break-and-enters within the municipality. The three men from Fort McMurray are MohamedOmar29chargedwithpossession forthepurposeoftrafckingandtwocounts ofpossessionofpropertyobtainedbycrime. Mohamud Omar 20 charged with posses- sionforthepurposeoftrafckingtwocounts of possession of property obtained by crime and fail to comply with an undertaking. Ismail Mohamed 19 charged with posses- sion for the purpose of trafcking and pos- session of property obtained by crime. On Sept. 18 Wood Buffalo RCMP executed a search warrant at a Fraser Avenue residence wherethreewomenwerearrested.Thesearch resulted in police seizing approximately three ouncesofcrackcocaine3000incashandan undisclosed amount of stolen property. Charged are RollaJabak19 possessionforthepurposeof trafckingandpossessionofstolenproperty. Dezerae Brown 23 possession for the purpose of trafcking and possession of Stolen Property. Taylor Bowin 21 possession for the pur- pose of trafcking and possession of sto- len property. All three women are from Fort McMur- ray and have been released from custody on cash bail. They are awaiting a court appear- ance on Sept. 30. Breakfast of un-champions NWT smugglers get creative smuggling contraband booze weed and cocaine RCMP in the NWT uncovered some creatively concealed drugs and alcohol in recent weeks seizing suspect cereal boxes juice jugs detergent bottles and even a coffee maker. PhotocourtesyofRCMP