Highway checkstop leads to gun, drug charges for Manitoba teen - Winnipeg

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A teen driver is going through quite a few drug and weapons expenses after a site visitors cease Monday afternoon, Manitoba RCMP say.

Mounties from the Nelson Home detachment have been referred to as to a checkstop on Freeway 620 round 12:30 p.m. to help First Nation Security Officers, who had stopped an SUV and had seized open liquor from the automobile.

Police stated a search of the teenage driver turned up a bag containing medicine, money and cellphones, and an additional search of the SUV led to the invention of cocaine, energy instruments and more money.

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The teenager admitted he was additionally in possession of a loaded handgun, police stated.

Police say they arrested a 16-year-old boy from Winnipeg. The opposite 4 occupants of the automobile — two ladies from Thompson of their 30s and two different teenage boys from Nelson Home — have been additionally arrested on the scene however later launched with out expenses.