Traffic stop leads to trafficking charges

Posted Mar 23, 2016 01:48:12 PM.

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HALIFAX – Three men face drug related charges following a traffic stop Tuesday in Halifax.

At 1:30 p.m., police pulled over a car on Walter Havill Drive and found large amount of cocaine, cannabis resin and cell phones.

The driver and two passengers were taken into custody.

Thirty-year-old Anthony Douglas Roberts of Halifax and 29-year-old Tyler Bradley Richards of Dartmouth were charged with trafficking in cocaine.

The other man, 23-year-old Jasmin Jasco Demirovic, from Burnaby, B.C., was also charged with trafficking in cocaine in addition to breach of probation.

All three were scheduled to appear in Halifax Provincial Court Wednesday.

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