By CHAT News Today

Calgary police make record fentanyl seizure

Dec 29, 2016 | 10:14 AM

CALGARY — Police in Calgary have made the largest seizure of fentanyl in the city’s history.

Police made a seizure of 35, 321 fentanyl pills with an estimated street value of $706,000, along with cocaine, heroin and weapons during a recent police operation. The seizure of fentanyl is one of the largest in the province, a Calgary Police news release states.

On Dec. 23, members of the members of the Strategic Enforcement Unit, with the assistance of Tactical Team members, executed search warrants on a home in the 2300 block of Richmond Road S.W., as well as on a nearby vehicle believed connected to the case. The vehicle had been reported stolen out of Strathmore and had a stolen licence plate.

During the operation on the home, a man was found inside one of the bedrooms and was reaching for a shotgun when officers arrested him. A search of the home netted a stash of drugs and deadly weapons.

In additional to the fentanyl, more than $40,000 in cocaine, $22,000 in methamphetamine, roughly $9,000 in heroin, and varying amounts of marijuana, MDMA, Oxycodone tablets, morphine, and nearly 70 pills of which the chemical makeup has yet to be determined, were found stashed in the home.

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Police also seized seven firearms from the home, including three 12-gauge shotguns, two rifles, a handgun and a crossbow. Various amounts of ammunition and multiple sets of body armour were also seized.

A search of the vehicle, a 2011 Jeep Compass, turned up an additional $37,115 in Canadian cash.

David Hillson Pratico of Calgary was arrested during the raid. The 31 year old man is charged with more than two dozen drug and weapons-related offences, including the production of crack cocaine.