Neil Lockhart, Lynn Griffin – Trafficking, Oxycodone, Crack Cocaine, Numerous Firearms Charges

(BLUEWATER, ON) -On October 14, 2011 the Huron County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) Organized Crime Enforcement Bureau- Drug Enforcement Unit with the assistance of Huron County OPP, West Region Emergency Response Team and the OPP Canine Unit executed a Controlled Drugs and Substances Act search warrant at a residence on Kippen Road in the Municipality of Bluewater.

As a result of the execution of the search warrant, police seized cannabis marihuana bud, cannabis marihuana shake, various types of tablets and capsules including Hydro- Morphone, Oxycodone, Casamet and Nabilone, crack cocaine, oxycontin pills, cannabis resin (hash oil) and approximately $3000 in Canadian currency.

The search also revealed eight various types of long guns, ammunition and a loaded handgun. The firearms were not registered to the home owners nor did they have a firearms licence.

Neil LOCKHART (58) and Lynn GRIFFIN (49) both of Bluewater have been charged under the Controlled Drugs and Substance Act with Possession of Cannabis Marihuana for the purpose of trafficking, Possession of Cannabis Resin for the purpose of trafficking, Possession of Oxycodone for the purpose of trafficking, Possession of Hydromorphone for the purpose of trafficking, Possession of Nabilone/Cesamet for the purpose of trafficking, and Production of Cannabis Marihuana. They were also charged under the Criminal Code of Canada for Possession of a Prohibited Firearm, Breach of Firearm Regulation, and nine counts of Unauthorized Possession of a Firearm. Both parties are currently held in custody to answer to their charges at a later date at the Ontario Court of Justice- Walkerton.

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