PG RCMP arrest six people following seizure of drugs and weapons
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A pair of search warrants executed by the Prince George RCMP led to the arrest of six people along with drugs and weapons.
Just after 11 am on April 28th, officers were in the Peden Hill area, which included members from the Downtown Safety Unit and Police Dog Services team.
The warrants were executed at a pair of homes on the 3800 block of Westwood Drive and on the 2600 block of Hollandia Drive.
In both cases, investigators located quantities of suspected fentanyl, methamphetamine, and cocaine, as well as evidence of drug trafficking.
Prince George RCMP are urging drivers to use caution and snow tires while making the transition to winter driving conditions.
RCMP spokesman Const. Gary Godwin said police responded to 32 accidents in the city over the weekend, following heavy snowfalls which began Friday. In addition, over 50 vehicles were reported off the road which didn’t require police attendance.
“It was a bit of a crazy weekend,” Godwin said. “The snow started Friday morning as people were making their way to work and again on Monday as people were going to work. It’s the worst time to get snow.”
Godwin said drivers need to adjust their behaviour behind the wheel and prepare their vehicles for winter conditions.
The Earth Day activities laid the groundwork for a small army of volunteers who registered for Sunday’s REAPS (Recycling Environmental Action Planning Society) Spring Clean Up. People descended on parks, parks, river banks, parking lots, roadside gutters/ditches/boulevards and residential neighbourhoods to pick up garbage and beautify the city. They found tires, wood pallets, car parts, appliances and all kinds of paper, metal and plastic waste and piled it up along roadways for city crews to pick up later. Elm Street residents Tim Graham and Pam Hodson were out Sunday morning with their bright yellow Pitch-In Canada garbage bag picking up litter along Patricia Boulevard on the bank overlooking downtown. The retirees go for walks regularly along that stretch of roadway in their neighbourhood and just wanted to do their part to make those walks more pleasant for people.
Thursday was Earth Day and students all over city took a break from their studies to get out with their gloves and garbage bags to pick up litter that accumulated over the long winter season. For. . .
St. Patrick s Day was always a highlight for leprechaun Mike Bundock, centre, and for more than 25 years he would come around with his pot of gold candy to bring cheer to schools, hospitals, pubs and city businesses. Bundock died at age 88 on Jan. 26. - Citizen file photo
In 1972, after escaping a head-on accident on the Peden Hill section of Highway 16, Mike Bundock started a petition to convince city council and the province of the need to widen the two-lane road to four lanes and it finally happened in 1975. - Citizen file photo If Mike Bundock could have picked any other country than Canada as his birthplace, it would have been Ireland.