Drugs, nine guns and $20,000 in cash were seized by Whitehorse RCMP early last Saturday morning.

As a result, six people are facing charges after officers executed a search warrant on a Riverdale townhouse.

Cpl. Blake Wawryk told a Monday afternoon news conference there was no resistance from the occupants of 49 Sternwheeler on Lewes Boulevard when they went into the home at 1 a.m.

Between 10 and 15 officers from the shift and the Street Crime Reduction Team, headed up by Wawryk, were involved in the arrests.

'We took the door down with a battering ram and we went in and people were under arrest before they knew what happened,' he said.

Wawryk spoke while standing behind a table displaying the nine guns, powdered cocaine, rocks of crack cocaine, pills believed to be ecstasy, marijuana and $100, $20 and $50 bills totalling $20,000.

'I don't know what the intention of this cash was, but I can tell you our intention is to seize it as proceeds of crime,' Wawryk said.

A bulk package of crack cocaine seized weighed 31 grams in addition to another 31 rocks of the drug and 2 1/2 grams of powdered cocaine.

Pointing to the drugs displayed on the table, Wawryk noted among the crack cocaine seized were 14 eight-balls of the drug.

'This cocaine here did not originate in the Yukon. It comes from the Lower Mainland of British Columbia.

'We suspect we know who is bringing it in. We are targeting those people,' he said, adding cocaine in Canada is connected to organized crime.

'So yeah, that is organized crime cocaine, no doubt.'

While six of the guns were hunting rifles, Wawryk was quick to point that others were intended only to harm people.

'Some of those weapons have one purpose: to harm and intimidate people. A machine pistol is a weapon of the drug trade, that's what those weapons are for and they're off the streets now,' he said.

If there's more out there, Wawryk added, the Street Crime Reduction team will work to get them off the streets.

In addition to the hunting rifles and machine pistol, there was an AK-47 and a shot gun.

Wawryk is unsure where the weapons came from.

Equipment to weigh and package drugs and other items were also seized from the home.

Charged with possession of drugs for trafficking are Whitehorse residents John Wayne Bourne, 35; Jason Dennis Johnson, 24; Matthew David Devellano, 24; and Surrey, B.C. resident Kelly Ryan Auclair, 29.

All remain in custoday and are set to appear in court later this month.

Two other people one who was leaving the residence at the time of the officers' arrival and found to have 10 rocks of crack cocaine and another woman who was visiting the townhouse were also arrested and charged.

Eli Steven Auclair, 23, was also charged with possession of drugs for trafficking and remains in custody.

Also charged with breaching court conditions is Whitehorse resident Donna Lee MacFarlane, 36.

Three other individuals arrested at the scene were released without charges.

Wawryk stressed that the weekend arrests are the type of work the eight-member Street Crime Reduction Team, which began its work in April, will be doing.

'This is not a tip-off. This is the type of enforcement that is going to be happening on the streets of Whitehorse and Yukon from now on.

'It is targeted enforcement of drug hotspots, prolific offenders and people who deal cocaine,' he said.

The unit will be doing surveillance, using informants and whatever 'legal means at our disposal,' Wawryk added.

'How this event happened is the same as how other events are going to happen. Someone will tell us about a drug house, be a member of the community or another drug trafficker.

'We'll do surveillance. We will take people away who are purchasing drugs and arrest them. We will gather evidence in support of a search warrant. When we do that, which we have done five weeks in a row now, we will go and act.'

In this case, it appears the house was operating on a 24-7 schedule. After seizing a cell phone from the residence, it didn't stop ringing until 9 a.m.

While drug enforcement isn't new to the territory, Wawryk said, the way it will now be done is different.

'We do not work in isolation,' he said. 'We work as a collective resources of Whitehorse detachment .

'All of us have the same oar in the water and all of us are targeting prolific and priority offenders in Yukon. It's not new. What's new is that we're co-ordinated.'

The focus on enforcement through a co-ordinated effort now means cocaine trafficking in Whitehorse has become risky, he added.

'No longer are you safe or do you have the comfort of dealing from your residence, the bars or the hotels,' Wawryk said. 'It is a risky activity and will result in you being incarcerated.'

As for the impact on the local drug trade, Wawryk invited reporters to ask dealers about it.

'Drug traffickers, we hear, are running scared, and they should,' he added.

Wawryk stressed that anyone providing information to police about drug dealers will have their identity protected and need not fear retribution.