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Police have laid charges in relation to a firearms investigation and a break and enter that occurred last week in Halifax.
On April 21 at approximately 3 a.m. police responded to a break and enter at the Needs Convenience located at 5 Ruth Goldbloom Drive. Two men broke into the business, stole a quantity of cigarettes and lottery tickets and fled the area in a vehicle.
Officers attempted to stop the vehicle near Windmill and Victoria roads in Dartmouth. The driver refused to stop, but the vehicle was not pursued out of concern for the public safety. At approximately 4 a.m. officers located the suspect vehicle abandoned in the 3000 block of the Waverly Road. A K-9 Unit tracked the suspects, and the two men were arrested in the area a short time later.
One of the men was also charges in relation to a search of a residence on Alabaster Way on April 19 where members of the Integrated Criminal Investigation Division seized a loaded firearm.
Shea Alexander Durnford, 34, is scheduled to appear in Halifax provincial court today to face charges of:
- Possession of a firearm obtained by crime
- Possession of a loaded prohibited firearm
- Possession of a firearm without a license
- Unauthorized possession of a firearm
- Possession of a weapon dangerous to the public peace
- Storing a firearm contrary to the regulations
- Unsafe storage of a firearm
- Tampering with the serial number on a firearm
- Possession of a firearm contrary to a court order (x2)
- Break and enter
- Dangerous operation of a conveyance
- Flight from a peace officer
- Possession of break and enter tools
- Possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000
- Fail to comply with conditions of a release order x 3
Jordon Ryan Dorton, 32, is scheduled to appear in Halifax provincial court today to face charges of:
- Break and enter
- Possession of break and enter tools
- Resisting arrest
- Possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000
- Fail to comply with conditions of a release order
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