Source: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
RCMP Federal Policing – Eastern Region searched a home on Channing Place in St. John’s on January 14, 2025. Numerous drugs, a quantity of cash and loaded firearms, including a 3D printed handgun, were seized. Twenty-six-year-old Asian Htoo was arrested and is charged with numerous criminal offences.
As part of an ongoing investigation, RCMP officers obtained a warrant to search the home authorized under the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act. Inside the home, police located and seized the following items:
- A quantity of suspected fentanyl
- More than a thousand pharmaceutical opioids, including quantities of oxycodone, morphine, codeine and hydromorphone
- 2 kilograms of cocaine
- A quantity of methylphenidate
- A quantity of clonazepam
- A quantity of contraband tobacco
- Approximately $20,000.00 cash
- Three handguns, including a Taurus .357 magnum revolver, a loaded Glock 9 mm and a loaded 9 mm 3D printed pistol
- A semi-automatic rifle
- Two pump-action shotguns, one of which was sawed off
- Ammunition
- Over capacity magazines
- Prohibited weapons, including brass knuckles
- Stolen property
A total of 79 criminal charges were laid against Htoo for criminal offences including drug trafficking, possession for the purpose of drug trafficking a number of controlled substances, as well as firearms and weapons charges.
He appeared in court yesterday and was remanded into custody for the purpose of a bail hearing, which will take place on January 22, 2025.
The investigation is continuing with further charges possible.
RCMP Federal Policing – Eastern Region targets criminal activity involving national security, transnational and serious organized crime and cybercrime throughout the entire province of Newfoundland and Labrador.