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By Connor Gunn

Police lay drug-related charges after traffic stop

Mar 17, 2021 | 2:25 PM

LETHBRIDGE, AB– Lethbridge Police have charged a driver with drug-related and other offenses following a traffic stop on Tuesday, March 16, 2021.

Around 3:30 am, LPS stopped a vehicle westbound on Whoop-Up Drive on a traffic incident. The driver was then arrested for failure to comply with release conditions.

Police searched the vehicle and seized:

• 26 grams of fentanyl
• 22.4 grams of methamphetamine, with a total value of about $11,700.
• $900 in cash
• Other drug paraphernalia.

Baltazar Martinez, 41, of Lethbridge was charged with:

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• two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking
• one count of possession of stolen property
• one count of failure to comply with release conditions.

Police say Martinez was charged previously this month on drug-related charges and failed to comply with release conditions.

Martinez was remanded in custody to appear in court on March 18, 2021.