Whitehorse Daily Star

Whitehorse-area raids lead to four arrests

Yukon RCMP arrested four men and seized drugs, weapons and cash during three raids in the Whitehorse area late Monday night.

By Rhiannon Russell on March 17, 2015

Yukon RCMP arrested four men and seized drugs, weapons and cash during three raids in the Whitehorse area late Monday night.

Members of the Yukon federal investigations unit and emergency response team (ERT) conducted two “high-risk vehicle stops,” police said this morning in a news release.

One was off the Alaska Highway at the Trails North complex in the Porter Creek-Crestview area, while the other was on Mountainview Drive.

They later executed a search warrant at a home in the Whitehorse area.

There were no injuries and no shots were fired, Cpl. Natasha Dunmall said this morning.

“We can’t speak to the techniques that the ERT used but my understanding is that what people believe to have been shots may have been flashbangs,” she said.

The team, which has specialized training, was deployed because RCMP believed weapons would be present at the locations, the news release stated.

“The arrests and drug warrant executed are the culmination of a police-wide effort to address a group of offenders in our community,” said Dunmall.

“It takes a substantial amount of investigative effort to get us to the stage where arrests can be made and warrants can be obtained to enter properties, and disrupt illegal activities.”

Dunmall said no further information can be released at this time because the investigation is ongoing.

She would not reveal the quantity of drugs, weapons and cash seized.

The suspects are scheduled to appear in territorial court later this afternoon on various weapons and drug charges.

Comments (4)

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mandeep on Mar 18, 2015 at 11:34 am

Who is the ERT and Yukon Federal Investigations unit?
There are no Yukon RCMP. There are just RCMP. This is how pyramids start. So are we paying more when an RCMP officer puts on a different jacket and says "now I'm ERT?"

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Logic on Mar 17, 2015 at 9:49 pm

Right now they aren't drug dealers... they are people accused of being drug dealers. if you were accused of a crime, would you want your name published in the paper before you had your day in court?

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francias pillman on Mar 17, 2015 at 9:14 pm

Stop being lazy and phone the courts. Its public knowledge. And it's free too.

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Names? on Mar 17, 2015 at 3:44 pm

Names? Why do we keep protecting drug dealers?

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