**** HRP Media Release
Police charge man with weapons and drug offences
Police have charged a man with drug and weapons offences after an arrest in Dartmouth this weekend.
On January 8 officers stopped a vehicle on Highway 111 as the driver had a warrant for his arrest. Officers arrested the man without incident and seized a quantity of fentanyl, cash and a loaded firearm.
Sheldon Michael Bennett, 23, is scheduled to appear in Dartmouth Provincial court today to face charges of:
- Careless use of a firearm (storage)
- Contravention of storage regulations
- Possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
- Carrying a concealed weapon
- Unauthorized possession of a firearm
- Possession of a firearm knowing its possession is unauthorized
- Unauthorized possession of a firearm in a motor vehicle
- Possession of a restricted or prohibited firearm with accessible ammunition
- Possession of a weapon obtained by crime
- Tampering with a serial number
- Possession of property obtained by crime
- Possession of a controlled substance for the purposes of trafficking
