By Patrick Burles - @PatrickBurles on Twitter

Authorities boarding-up south side home because of drug activity

Dec 7, 2016 | 1:10 PM

LETHBRIDGE – A joint effort by the Safer Communities and Neighbourhoods (SCAN) unit and Lethbridge Police Service (LPS) has shut down an alleged drug house.

They have obtained a Community Safety Order (CSO) against the owner of 611 – 15 Street South, which will allow them to close the house to anyone for the next 90-days and place additional restrictions on the property for a full year.

“We’ve taken over the property,” stated SCAN investigator, Glenn Stuart. “The water is shutoff at the street, we board it up, we fence it up, we’ll put some signs up later on in the week, and we’ll monitor the property for 90-days, nobody in or out for 90-days without our consent.”

While SCAN was in Lethbridge to close another house in September 2016, LPS asked them to investigate the property because of multiple complaints of drug activity. After gathering enough evidence to get a search warrant, police found drugs, replica firearms, ammunition and cash, resulting in charges against two individuals who had been renting the property.

When drug activity resumed at the home, SCAN obtained the CSO from the Court of Queen’s Bench.

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“There’s been lots of people coming to this property, it’s my understanding from the police that there’s been a couple of home invasions also occur at this property… there was a fire at the back of this property and it burned down the neighbours garage,” explained Stuart of the need to deal with the home.

“It brings a clientele that neighbourhoods don’t want, it brings a lot of drug users, like I said, there was a home invasion so there was weapons involved,” Stuart continued. “These people that do home invasions, they’re not always the brightest bunch and they don’t always get the right address, I mean, we’ve seen that where they’ve broken into the wrong houses and held innocent people at gun point.”

Kevin, who lives in the Victoria Park Neighbourhood, noted that it’s a relief for the entire community to see the crackdown, stating that neighbours started noticing suspicious activity in the area going back to May.

“I know for a fact that there were people that did not want to sleep in their homes at night as a result of this house in this neighbour,” Kevin explained. “They will feel much more comfortable being here in this neighbourhood, and we want them to feel that level of comfort, we don’t want anyone to have that level of fear here.”

by Patrick Burles - @PatrickBurles on Twitter

Authorities boarding-up south side home because of drug activity

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