Photo courtesy of Alberta RCMP.
The Red Deer RCMP with the assistance of the Emergency Response Team and Police Dog Services, arrested two individuals and seized multiple firearms and stolen property following their investigation
On Nov. 13, officers observed an individual driving a vehicle while they were prohibited.
Out of concern for public safety police did not pursue the driver.
The next day, the same individual was located again by police.
Officers conducted surveillance, leading to the coordinated arrest of two individuals.
A search warrant was executed on a vehicle, a hotel room and a residence connected to the suspects.
As a result of the search, Red Deer RCMP recovered various items including a loaded stolen handgun, a long gun and a stolen license plate.
Joshua Severin, a 31-year-old resident of Red Deer, has been with the following offences:
- Operate conveyance while prohibited from doing so x2
- Careless transportation of a firearm
- Knowing unauthorized possession of a firearm
- Unauthorized possession of a firearm in a vehicle
- Possess prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition
- Possess weapon obtained by crime
- Possess firearm contrary to order x6
Shelby Krause, a 33-year-old resident of Red Deer, has been charged with the following offences:
- Careless transportation of a firearm
- Unauthorized possession of a firearm in a vehicle
- Possess prohibited or restricted firearm with ammunition
- Possess weapon obtained by crime
- Breach of release order x2
Both were taken before a Justice of the Peace and were remanded into custody.
Their last court date was on Nov. 18, at the Alberta Court of Justice in Red Deer.
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