Lethbridge man faces 26 charges after guns, drugs seized
A Lethbridge man is facing dozens of charges after police seized firearms, drugs, cash and stolen property from a home and a vehicle on Thursday.
Officers attempted to conduct a traffic stop on a vehicle in the area of 18th Street and Second Avenue North, but say the vehicle didn't stop.
Investigators found the vehicle a short time later parked behind a home in the 1900 block of 6A Avenue North.
Police arrested the driver and say three firearms were found in the vehicle – two of which had been sawed off and one of which was loaded and located directly beside the driver’ seat – along with a replica Glock airsoft handgun.
"Also seized was methamphetamine, fentanyl, cocaine, psilocybin and prescription pills with a street value of about $9,000, as well as tools linked with earlier break-ins," police said in a Friday news release.
Vance Elton Pidborochynski, 32, of Lethbridge is charged with 26 offences.
He is currently in custody and awaiting a Judicial Interim Release hearing.
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