Crack cocaine, handgun seized after Cambridge Bay assault
Four charged following July 8 incident that left hamlet rattled
Crack cocaine, an unlicensed handgun and more than $5,000 in suspected proceeds of crime were seized following a violent assault earlier this month in Cambridge Bay, according to police information filed with the court. (File photo)
Crack cocaine, an unlicensed handgun and more than $5,000 in alleged proceeds of crime were seized following a violent assault this month in Cambridge Bay, according to police information filed with the court.
Three of the suspects — Hadi Alhashesh, 19, of Chilliwack, B.C.; Ly Gabriel Galido, 22, and Ayaan Kamran Warsi, 18, both of Edmonton — face multiple charges, including aggravated assault, forcible confinement, and trafficking in a controlled substance following the July 8 attack that sent two victims to an Edmonton hospital.
A fourth man, 19-year-old Joshua MacPherson of Cambridge Bay, faces two counts of assault and was released ahead of a September court appearance.
A handgun was allegedly used to threaten the victims, according to the police information document, and one of the victims was also allegedly robbed of $140 at gunpoint.
Alhashesh, Galido and Warsi are also charged with trafficking crack cocaine.
More than $5,000 in suspected proceeds of crime was found in the course of the investigation, the police information document said.
The allegations have not been proven in court.
In an interview a few days after the incident, RCMP Supt. Kent Pike would not specify which drug the accused were suspected of trafficking.
“There’s confirmation that needs to be done in the labs,” Pike said.
Pike, Cambridge Bay MLA Pamela Gross and Mayor Wayne Gregory hosted a town hall meeting in the community on July 14 to address safety concerns after the incident.
Implementation of an Alert Ready system to send emergency alerts to phones, TVs, and radios; Citizens on Patrol or community-based policing; and the occasional use of an RCMP drug detection dog in the hamlet were suggestions put forward by leaders and residents.
Alhashesh, Galido and Warsi remain in custody and are scheduled to appear in court in Iqaluit on July 29.
Yellowknife airport needs security screening for any Nunavut flights! Easy to ship via YK as they don’t have security at all
Especially Capital City of Nunavut needs a Security with the RCMP dog 24 7 now because there has been way too many of our younger generation dyeing, from all the hard drugs. I have never seen it this bad with 4 if not more deaths from Overdosing this year and last year. There has also been more Suicides due to use of hard drugs, and we all know that.
RCMP needs to do better job on cracking down on the Top dealers and the communities need to help out more by giving out information who are the big dealers in their community, as everyone knows it is the smaller business owners that they use to cover up their big money making from drugs. I see and have heard too many times how the big dealers from Iqaluit even use younger teens by sending them off to Ottawa or Montreal to meat someone to pickup hard drugs, then pay the young ladies hotel and give them $1000 spending money. I know for sure there was one beautiful mother of 1 went to Ottawa last year supposedly to pickup hard drugs for some big shot in Iqaluit, and was found dead downtown Ottawa on the streets from Hard drugs OD.
There has been way too many hand guns being involved in the drug bust and found in our smaller communities and of course in the Capital of Iqaluit, and that is so scary and serious. There was never any hand guns here as they are not legal so it is so obvious what the intent of use is for.
Please get those big criminals of our Nunavut streets before it gets worse, as they are taking over Nunavut and our people. I should say it is already so bad and the gangsters are so obvious who they are here in Iqaluit and act like they have more power buy beating up others, because bad drug dealing went bad.
Example last month here in Iqaluit Apex 2 teens went to someone house and beat the crap out of him and had black mask on, plus took off in ATV’s plus guys were none Inuit.
So just imagine what this means in our homeland none Inuit are showing us they do not care about us Inuit, and it is being proof with all these huge drug dealers coming up taking over.
Please do not make any negative comments unless you agree with me. Lets helps each other and protect our children, Grandchildren, sisters, brothers even parents from the hard drugs that is escalating between our communities.
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Unfortunately, you do not get to pick who replies to you or not.
3 of the last 5 busts in Iqaluit, have been locals. While you want to blame southerners for this issue, it is just as much of a problem created by people that have been here. Anyone that has been to Northmart knows that speed and other drugs make their way there sometimes, it is not a secret. In addition, it is not secret that 2 of the biggest dealers in town (and users) are locals.
This is a problem that is EVERYWHERE and not a result of one ethnic group or another. This is common among all races and nationalities. Trying to make it an “us vs them” thing wont help matters.
Good for Cam Bay locals responding to this and showing their leaders their concerns and making it known. This needs to happen in Iqaluit and Rankin too. We need to let our leaders know, our community’s aren’t as safe anymore, what will they do?
Locals, do not participate in drugs, the dealers do not give a damn about your life. Your family and friends do. Locals need to do their part in saying these criminals aren’t welcome and let police know. stay away from hard drugs!! It’ll ruin your life.
Qanuli? What can citizens do? Public safety committee? Need all levels of government to collaborate to address the raise in violence and hard drugs. Need public campaigns, keeping quiet won’t do anything.
These drugs are not the problem. The young are not being directed by themselves. These kids are guided. That should be the focus. Who at that age from never been cultural contact other than enacting what they think is gangster in our territory needs to be address and racism can’t be the reason.