TRAFFIC STOP LEADS TO SEIZURE OF GUN, DRUGS

Crown counsel has approved a charge of possessing a prohibited firearm against a former Kelowna man allegedly found with a loaded handgun and magazines holding about 60 rounds of ammunition during a traffic stop on Saturday evening.

Anthony James Graham, 34, remained in custody on the count as of Monday.

RCMP said James was a passenger in a vehicle officers pulled over on Dawson Road in the Hart as a result of an infraction under the Motor Vehicle Act.

Police said Graham, who tried to flee on foot but was soon caught, was wearing soft body armour and was in possession of a substantial amount of cash, methamphetamine, cocaine and fentanyl.

A search of the vehicle uncovered drug trafficking paraphernalia, which was seized along with the vehicle itself, RCMP said.

The driver, a 31-year-old woman whose name was not provided, was released without charges but drug charges may be approved at a later date, RCMP said.

Graham had recently moved to Prince

George from Kelowna, RCMP said.

“This is great work by our officers, seizing a substantial amount of cash and drugs, and removing a prohibited firearm from the street” Prince George RCMP Staff Sgt. Darin Rappel. “Who knows what kind of harm we were able to prevent as a result of this traffic stop.”