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On July 17, 2025, Grande Prairie RCMP Drug Section, with assistance from the Grande Prairie RCMP Crime Reduction Unit (CRU) and Grande Prairie Rural CRU, executed a search warrant at a duplex in the Scenic Ridge neighbourhood in Grande Prairie.

As a result of the search warrant, the following was seized:

 

  • 900 grams of suspected cocaine;
  • 100 grams of suspected mushrooms; 
  • 11 firearms;
    • 3 prohibited firearms; 2 were loaded.
  • Materials consistent with drug trafficking;
  • Over 15,000 rounds of ammunition;
  • 4 prohibited devices;
  • 16,000 contraband cigarettes.  

Michael Lutgen (50), and Alexandra Lutgen (36), both residents of Grande Prairie, have been charged with 17 offences, some of which include the following:

 

  • Trafficking in a controlled substance (x2)
  • Possession of stolen property
  • Careless use or storage of a firearm
  • Unauthorized possession of a firearm
  • Fraud

After a Judicial Interim Release Hearing, both were released on conditions to appear in Alberta Court of Justice in Grande Prairie on July 28, 2025.

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