Calgary police have busted a large drug operation and seized drugs and guns from two homes in the city's southeast.
The month-long investigation into a dial-a-dope operation led police to two houses; one in the 6200 block of 17 Avenue S.E. and a second house in the 900 block of Pensdale Crescent S.E.
Investigators say the homes were being used as stash locations for the drug operation.
Typically dial-a-dope operations are set up and run by organized crime groups and the groups use cell phones to accept an order and then use paid runners to deliver the product.
Police seized more than $98,000 in methamphetamine, $52,000 in marijuana, $30,000 in heroin, $11,000 in cocaine, and various amounts of oxycontin and codeine.
They also found four long-barreled rifles, a revolver, swords, machetes, a taser, a flare gun, and bear spray.
Four people are facing charges and police say there is always a risk to public safety in these kinds of stuations.
‘There’s always a threat to the public when this type of activity is going on in a residential neighbourhood because there could be a collateral effect. We’ve seen homes where there’s been shootings and the rounds go into houses that aren’t even involved in this so people could somehow be unwillingly in the path,” said CPS District 4 Staff Sgt. Geoff Gawlinski.
David Lee Little, 37, Jeremy Douglas Mockler, 34, Brandi Lee Ellis, 34, and Jani Kristian Suutarinen, 37, have all been charged with multiple drug and weapons-related offences.
All have been released on bail.
