YORKTON - On Jan. 24, at approximately 11:20 a.m., officers from Saskatchewan RCMP’s Yorkton Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan observed a truck fail to slow to 60 km/hr when passing an emergency vehicle on Highway 16, west of Yorkton.
The officers pulled the truck over and observed drug paraphernalia in plain view.
The two adult male occupants were detained and the truck was searched. Officers located and seized:
- approximately 181 grams of suspected methamphetamine;
- a few hundred pills, some believed to be morphine;
- 18 g of psilocybin;
- 28 grams of unstamped cannabis;
- 26 grams of loose cannabis;
- one carton of unstamped cigarettes;
- an open bottle of vodka; and
- a bat and a baton.
A man from Alberta and one from Quebec are each charged with:
- one count, possession for the purpose of trafficking (methamphetamine), Section 5(2), Controlled Drugs and Substances Act;
- two counts, possession, Section 4(1), Controlled Drugs and Substances Act;
- one count, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, Section 88(2), Criminal Code; and
- one count, possession of unstamped tobacco that is not blackstock, Section 11(8), Tobacco tax Act.
The occupants were also ticketed for various provincial offences including failing to slow to 60 km/hr while passing an emergency vehicle and having open liquor and cannabis in a vehicle.
