A truck failing to slow down for an emergency vehicle led to two males being charged with various drug-related charges.
On January 24 at 1:20 a.m., officers from Saskatchewan RCMP’s Yorkton Combined Traffic Services Saskatchewan observed a truck fail to slow to 60 km/hr when passing an emergency vehicle on Highway #16, west of Yorkton.
Officers pulled the truck over and observed drug paraphernalia in plain view.
After a search of the vehicle, officers seized the following:
- Approximately 181 grams of suspected methamphetamine;
- A few hundred pills, some believed to be morphine;
- 18 grams of psilocybin;
- 28 grams of unstamped cannabis;
- 26 grams of loose cannabis;
- One carton of unstamped cigarettes;
- An open bottle of vodka; and
- A bat and a baton.
The two men in the vehicle, 32-year-old Dany Caron from Grand-Remous, Quebec and 49-year-old Jason Palmer from Edmonton, were arrested and charged with the following:
- One count, possession for the purpose of trafficking (methamphetamine),
- Two counts, possession,
- One count, possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose, and
- One count, possession of unstamped tobacco that is not blackstock
The occupants were also ticketed for provincial offences, including failing to slow to 60 km/hr while passing an emergency vehicle and having open liquor and cannabis in a vehicle.
