***’ RCMP Media Release
Valley Integrated Street Crime Enforcement Unit charge three people with drug and firearms offences
The Valley Integrated Street Crime Enforcement Unit has charged three people drug trafficking and firearms related offences in South Greenwood.
On September 7, 2023, as part of an ongoing drug trafficking investigation, the Valley Integrated Street Crime Enforcement Unit, assisted by the Kings District RCMP General Investigation Section, Kings District RCMP and the Criminal Intelligence Service of Nova Scotia, executed a search warrant at a home on Hwy. 201 in South Greenwood. Officers located three people in the home and safely arrested all three. During the search, officers located and seized cocaine, morphine, methamphetamine, clonazepam, a shotgun, a rifle with an attached silencer, ammunition, scales, cash, cellular phones and illegal cigarettes.
Cullen MacDonald, 43, Sarah Keddy, 67, both of South Greenwood and, Amanda Weir, 35, of Aylesford, have been jointly charged with:
- Possession of a Controlled Substance for the Purpose of Trafficking (4 counts);
- Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm (2 counts);
- Unauthorized Possession of a Device;
- Possession of a Firearm Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized (2 counts);
- Possession of a Device Knowing its Possession is Unauthorized;
- Possession of a Firearm with Ammunition;
- Unsafe Storage of a Firearm (2 counts);
- Unsafe Storage of a Prohibited Device;
- Possession of Property Obtained by Crime.
MacDonald is also charged with Possession of a Firearm/Device Contrary to Prohibition Order (3 counts). MacDonald has been remanded into custody and will appear in Kentville Provincial Court on October 4, 2023 at 9:30 a.m.
Keddy and Weir were both released on conditions and will appear in Kentville Provincial Court on November 15, 2023, at 9:30 a.m.
