Northern Ont. suspect charged with corrupting children, drug trafficking, weapons offences
A 35-year-old from Hearst, Ont., has been charged with child luring and several other offences after police received a complaint from the public.
A caller on May 1 told Ontario Provincial Police that someone was sending sexually explicit messages to young people in the community.
“Police conducted an extensive investigation, and identified five victims, four of which were under the age of 18,” the OPP said in a news release Friday.
Police raided a home on Veilleux Street on Thursday at 2 p.m. and arrested the suspect.
“Seized during the warrant's execution were firearms, ammunition, computers, cellphones, an external hard drive, drugs suspected to be MDMA (ecstasy) and methamphetamine, and Canadian currency,” police said.
Charges include:
- Four counts of making sexually explicit material available to persons under age 18;
- Two counts of child luring and firearms possession;
- Four counts of supplying liquor to those under age 19;
- And one count each of corrupting children, making intimate image available without consent, drug trafficking, careless storage of a firearm and possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000.
"Due to the nature of the incident, the name of the accused will not be released in order to protect the identity of the victims," said police.
The accused remains in custody pending a bail hearing before the Ontario Court of Justice in Hearst.
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