Trial ordered for trio charged in significant local drug seizure

Three of four people charged in a significant drug, weapons, and stolen property seizure in Red Deer last year have been ordered to stand trial.

The order was made in Red Deer provincial court last week following a preliminary hearing, but no trial date has been set as of yet for Anthony James White, 42, Stephanie Johnson, 38, and Richard Dryborough-Browes, 52, all of Red Deer.

Charges against a fourth individual, Kiera Marie Hopkins, 23, also of Red Deer, were withdrawn on July 7, 2022.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