Collaboration & reporting crime leading to drug houses being shut down in Lethbridge
LETHBRIDGE, AB – “It takes a community and that includes police officers, that includes SCAN, that includes municipal leadership to actually hear the residents’ voices, but it also takes us as the residents of Lethbridge to stand up against the crime that’s happening.”
Those are the words of Connecting Our Community Lethbridge (COCL) Spokesperson Mallory Kristjanson after a notorious drug house was shut down this week on Lethbridge’s west side.
LNN reported on Tuesday that a third drug house was shut down in Lethbridge in just one year, this time on Assiniboia Way. Nearly 60 calls for service were made for the property between January 2017 and October 2018, including for a home invasion, property damage, and open drug use involving needles.
Kristjanson says their group started up in July 2019 after becoming fed up with the increase in crime.