Halifax police charge two people with firearms, drug trafficking offences
Posted Oct 10, 2023 01:51:13 PM.
Last Updated Oct 10, 2023 05:44:28 PM.
Regional police have charged two people with firearms and drug trafficking offences in connection to an incident earlier this month.
On Oct. 6 at roughly 10:30 p.m., officers stopped a vehicle near Avon Crescent where police arrested the driver, who had provided false information, as well as the passenger.
During the arrest, police say they seized crack cocaine and a loaded firearm.
Sheldon Michael Bennett, 24, and Brianna Lee Weir, 19, are scheduled to appear in in Halifax provincial court today to face charges of:
- Possession of a firearm obtained by crime
- Possession of a loaded firearm
- Possession of a firearm in a vehicle
- Possession of a prohibited weapon or ammunition without a license
- Possession of a firearm without a license
- Possession of prohibited weapon
- Unauthorized possession of firearm
- Carrying concealed weapon
- Possession of a weapon dangerous to the public peace
- Store firearm or restricted weapon contrary to regulations
- Unsafe storage of firearm
- Possession for the purpose of trafficking
