Drugs, weapons seized at Cambridge Place, four charged

CITY POLICE

NEWS RELEASE

************************* Yesterday morning shortly after 7 a.m. officers from the Joint Forces Drug Unit, which is comprised of officers from the Sault Ste. Marie Police Service, the OPP Drug Enforcement Section, the RCMP and the OPP North East Region, attended at an address on Cambridge Place and executed a search warrant.

Officers from the Emergency Services Unit as well as patrol officers assisted them.

Officers located approximately 7.2 grams of cocaine, 16.6 grams of marijuana and small amounts of cannabis resin and cannabis hashish. The estimated street value of the narcotic is $1,060.

Officers also located a shotgun shell and a knife that opens with centrifugal force.

Four persons have been charged in relation to this incident:

1) 24-year old Joseph Cellini of 305-115 Cambridge Place has been charged with one count of trafficking in a controlled drug or substance, two counts of possession for the purposes of trafficking in a controlled drug or substance, four counts of possession of a controlled drug or substance, one count of resist police, one count of careless storage of ammunition and one count of possession of a prohibited weapon.

2) 26-year-old Kevin Bennett of 10-874 Queen Street East has been charged with two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking in a controlled drug or substance, four counts of possession of a controlled drug or substance, one count of careless storage of ammunition and one count of possession contrary to court order.

3) 18-year-old Navarre Cellini (male) of 305-115 Cambridge Place has been charged with two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking in a controlled drug or substance, four counts of possession of a controlled drug or substance, one count of careless storage of ammunition, and one count of possession of a prohibited weapon.

4) 19-year-old Adam Black of no fixed address has been charged with four counts of trafficking in a controlled drug or substance, four counts of possession of a controlled drug or substance, one count of possession of a prohibited weapon, two counts of possession contrary to a court order, four counts of breach of probation, one count of assault, one count of threatening and one count of possession of property obtained by crime.

In regards to the accused Adam Black it is alleged that on the 12th of December the accused threatened a teenage male youth. It is further alleged that between October and December the accused assaulted the same youth.

It is alleged that on December 12th the accused was in possession of property that had been taken from a break and enter to a home on Granville Crescent on that date.

All four accused persons will appear in bail court this morning.

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