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Trial dates set for trio charged in Red Deer drug, weapons and stolen property seizure

Nov 9, 2022 | 2:40 PM

Trial dates have now been set for three people charged in a significant drug, weapons, and stolen property seizure in Red Deer last year.

Stephanie Johnson, 38, Anthony James White, 42, and Richard Dryborough-Browes, 52, all of Red Deer, are scheduled for trial from May 23-26, 2023 in Red Deer Court of King’s Bench.

The trio were ordered to stand trial following a preliminary hearing in September 2022.

Charges against a fourth individual, Kiera Marie Hopkins, 23, also of Red Deer, were withdrawn on July 7, 2022.

All four were charged in June 2021 after local Mounties searched a property in Red Deer’s Riverside Meadows the month before and found a large amount of illicit drugs, weapons, and stolen property.

RCMP’s investigation into the property began in late April 2021.

Inside the residence, members of Red Deer RCMP’s General Investigation Section (GIS) seized:

  • 475 grams of marijuana
  • 27 grams of cocaine
  • 29 grams of DMT
  • 5 grams of fentanyl
  • 167 grams of MDMA
  • 773 grams of methamphetamine
  • 1979 grams of psilocybin
  • 19 litres of GHB
  • 1 semi-automatic prohibited shotgun
  • $20,616 CDN

Also located in a garage on the property were two stolen all-terrain vehicles, say RCMP.

  • A stolen 2020 Can Am Outlander quad
  • A stolen Konker motorcycle

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