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Police have charged a man with weapons and drug charges in relation to an investigation that occurred in Dartmouth on the weekend.
At approximately 4:45 a.m. on August 14, police responded to a report of a man passed out in a running vehicle in a parking lot on Princess Margaret Boulevard. Officers located the man in the vehicle and arrested him for impaired driving. Officers searched the vehicle after observing a gun in the vehicle in plain sight and seized a handgun and quantities of cocaine and cannabis.
Dion Edward Thomas-Hodges, 24, was scheduled to appear in Dartmouth Provincial Court yesterday to face charges of:
- Operating a conveyance while impaired
- Operating a conveyance with blood alcohol above 80mg%
- Possession of weapon for dangerous purpose
- Improper storage of a firearm
- Unauthorized possession of a firearm
- Possession of a firearm knowing it is unauthorized
- Possession of a restricted firearm with ammunition
- Possession of a firearm in a vehicle
- Possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking
- Possession of cannabis for the purpose of distribution
- Possession of cannabis for the purpose selling
- Produce cannabis for the purpose of distribution or selling
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