Hinton man charged after medicine, knives seized throughout site visitors cease: RCMP

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A Hinton man is going through fees after police seized a big amount of medicine and a pair of curved knives throughout a site visitors cease earlier this month.

On Aug. 5, RCMP officers in Hinton performed a site visitors cease in a rural space close to the city of Hinton, positioned 288 km west of Edmonton.

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Police arrested three occupants of the automobile after officers mentioned they positioned drug paraphernalia together with a bag containing what gave the impression to be drug residue.

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Upon looking out the automobile, police seized 28 grams of methamphetamine, 102.2 grams of fentanyl, two Karambit curved knives and 10 shotgun shells.

Nathan Paul, 36, a resident of Hinton, is charged with two counts of possession with the intent to site visitors, breach of launch order, and breach of a probation order.

Paul has been remanded into police custody and is scheduled to look in Hinton court docket on Wednesday.

Fees are pending towards the 2 different suspects, police mentioned.