Cocaine, cash and other drugs found in northern Ontario home; Mississauga man charged
Published May 2, 2024 at 5:41 pm
A Mississauga man is facing drug trafficking and other charges after a police task force formed to target street gangs in northern Ontario seized a stash of drugs and cash from a Thunder Bay home on Tuesday.
OPP said in a news release this afternoon a search warrant executed by members of a joint forces guns and gangs enforcement team at a home in the city’s north end led to the recovery of fentanyl (more than 22 grams), cocaine (60 grams), 30 oxycodone pills, drug trafficking paraphernalia and $4,000 in Canadian money.
Tristan Hudson-Rider, 27, of Mississauga, has been charged with:
- possession for the purpose of trafficking in crack cocaine
- possession for the purpose of trafficking in fentanyl
- possession for the purpose of trafficking in oxycodone
- possession of proceeds of crime under $5,000
He was held in custody pending a bail hearing, police said.
The OPP-led Provincial Joint Forces Guns and Gangs Enforcement Team, comprised of officers from 20 police forces, was created to “disrupt criminal street gang activity through intelligence-led, multijurisdictional drug trafficking investigations,” police said.
The unit also seeks to reduce the number of illegal guns that wind up in the hands of gang members and others.
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“Street gangs are migrating to communities across Ontario and this has resulted in an increase in the number of illegal firearms entering our communities,” OPP said.
(Cover photo: OPP)
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