DURHAM-Investigators have charged a second suspect after police seized 33 guns and the deadly drug carfentanil from a Pickering residence in September 2017.
Durham Police with the assistance of the Edmonton Police Service, a search warrant was executed at a residential address on Albany Way Northwest in Edmonton on March 9th. The suspect who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant was arrested at the scene and police seized approximately $180,000 in Canadian currency.
30 year old Babar Ali of Toronto is facing 337 firearms-related charges and Possession for the Purpose of Trafficking of a Schedule I Substance (carfentanil). He was returned to Durham Region and was held for a bail hearing.
Laboratory results from Health Canada confirmed a substance taken out of a Pickering residence last in September was carfentanil some of which may have been headed for local streets.
On Wednesday, September 20, 2017 police seized 53 kgs of unknown substances from a Pickering residence and 42 kgs of this has been positively identified as carfentanil a deadly street drug. Carfentanil or carfentanyl is a synthetic opioid similar to fentanyl but 100 times more potent. This narcotic is marketed as a tranquilizer for large animals. A very small amount of this drug can be lethal. The total seizure equals 420,000 doses of carfentanil with a street value estimated at $13 million dollars.
33 year old Maisum Ansar of New Providence Street in Oshawa was arrested at that time and is facing 337 firearms charges including Careless Storage of a Firearm; Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm; Possess a Restricted or Prohibited Firearm Knowing its Possession if Unauthorized; and Possession of a Prohibited Device.
