A 28-year-old man from Stony Mountain was arrested in God’s Lake Narrows March 27 after RCMP officers saw a gun in his vehicle.
God’s Lake Narrows RCMP stopped the man’s vehicle around 10 p.m. and noticed a firearm in the backseat as they spoke with the driver, who was the only person in the vehicle. They completed police record checks showing that he had two outstanding arrest warrants and was on conditions to not possess any firearms.
A search of the vehicle following the driver’s arrest resulted in police seizing two rifles, ammunition, 31 bottles of alcohol, bear spray and illicit pills containing fentanyl, according to presumptive tests.
Jordan Burton was charged with numerous firearms-related offences and with failing to comply with a release order. He was also charged with two counts of possessing controlled substances and with possessing a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking.
God’s Lake Narrows is a dry First Nation where the sale and possession of alcohol is prohibited.
Burton was remanded into custody for a court appearance in Thompson that was scheduled for March 29.
