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Six Londoners face a long list of charges after police seized more than a quarter-million dollars worth of drugs from three separate locations in the city.
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Apr 19, 2022 • 6 hours ago • 1 minute read • 7 Comments 
Six Londoners face charges after police seized crystal meth, cocaine, fentanyl, hydromorphone and other drugs worth $269,800 from three London addresses on Thursday, April 14. (London police photo)
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Six Londoners face a long list of charges after police seized more than a quarter-million dollars worth of drugs from three separate locations in the city.
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The London police guns and gangs section, with assistance from its emergency response and canine units, searched last Thursday three addresses on Chelton Road, Gramercy Park Place, and Langmuir Avenue, police said. All three streets are located near the same stretch of Highbury Avenue in the city’s east end.
Investigators seized brass knuckles, 2,406 grams of crystal meth valued at more than $190,000, 580 grams of cocaine, fentanyl, crack cocaine, hydromorphine, oxycodone and hydromorphone pills, and other drugs, police said, estimating the total value at $269,862.
Four Londoners, ages 48, 33, 32 and 44, are charged with four counts of possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking, and possession of a prohibited weapon. Two other Londoners, 32 and 41, are jointly charged with three counts of possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking.
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The 44-year-old is also charged with three counts of possession of drugs and the 48-year-old is charged with possession of drugs for the purpose of trafficking (cocaine) and failure to comply with a release order. The 33-year-old also faces one count of failure to comply with a release order.
The six individuals are to appear in London court at a future date.
Anyone with information about the investigation is asked to contact police at (519)-661-5670 or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
Highly addictive and up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that has been implicated in recent years in the opioid drug crisis that has swept Ontario and the rest of the country. Fentanyl can prove fatal to unsuspecting drug users who are unaware the street drugs they’ve purchased are tainted with the far more powerful opioid.
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