Speeding leads to drug charges

OPP NEWS RELEASES

************************** Traffic stop nets drug seizure

SERPENT RIVER, ON - On April 27 at 10:20 a.m. while on general patrol, Constable Wilson from the East Algoma-Blind River detachment stopped a vehicle for speeding.

After a short investigation a small amount of suspected marijuana was located in the vehicle.

The driver, 43-year-old Massey resident Kerri-Leah Buttenham is charged with speeding, section 128 Highway Traffic Act and possession of a controlled substance, section 4(1) of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act.

************************** Shed entered, two females charged

SPANISH, ON - In the evening of April 27, police received a call of two suspicious females in the backyard of a house on Public Road in Spanish.

The home owner was not home at the time and the girls were not known to the caller so police were called.

Officers from the East Algoma Blind River OPP detachment attended and discovered that the shed had been broken into.

Officers later located the two females in the bush area at the rear of the residence and arrested them for the break and enter.

Charged are 27-year-old April Moore and 23-year-old Dana St. Denis both of Serpent River First Nation.

Both females have been charged with:

- break and enter with intent to commit an indictable offence - Section 348(1)(a) Criminal Code - trespass/prowl near a dwelling house - Section 177 Criminal Code

Both Moore and St. Denis are scheduled to appear in court on June 4 in Blind River.

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