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Lethbridge man faces 26 charges after guns, drugs seized

Lethbridge police display the items seized by officers on June 23, 2022. (Lethbridge Police Service) Lethbridge police display the items seized by officers on June 23, 2022. (Lethbridge Police Service)
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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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