By CHAT News Today

Aberdeen Street home closed for second time due to drug activity

May 18, 2017 | 10:57 AM

MEDICINE HAT, AB — Alberta Sheriffs and the Medicine Hat Police Service closed a home on Aberdeen Street associated with criminal activity for the second time in a year on Thursday.

A second Community Safety Order was granted against the owner of 390 Aberdeen Street SE, giving the Safer Community and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) Unit the authority to fence the property, board up the house and change the locks.

Under the terms of the order, anyone living in the house, including the owner, must vacate the property. The house will be closed for 14 days.

The closure of the home is a result of criminal activity associated with the property, which is located across the street from a daycare. Police obtained a community safety order to close the home for 90 days on September 7, 2016, following several months of investigation, including a drug bust.

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Since the home was returned to the owner, police have been called to the home eight times, twice for overdose incidents. In one of the incidents, police were able to administer naloxone to a patient.

The most recent community safety order was granted in court last week, and remains in effect for one year.

Other conditions on the home include no overnight guests unless there is a written lease agreement. The director of law enforcement will also have to be provided with the lease and approve guests in the home.

Inspector Mike Letourneau with Alberta Sheriffs says they have not had to seize a home a third time, but if they’re called back to this home once the owner returns, there will be consequences.

“If we have to come back, and there is drug activity at the property, we’re going to be going to another 90 day closure of this property, and perhaps even more stringent conditions yet to be created, so we can get a solution,” he said.

Letourneau says the owner of the home is dealing with a drug addiction. Staff Sgt. Kelsey Fraser with the Medicine Hat Police Service says police have tried to offer the owner help, but did not receive a reply from the man.