{"id":591589,"date":"2026-04-09T02:49:34","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591589\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:49:34","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:49:34","slug":"23-year-old-from-ottawa-facing-gun-charges-after-home-vehicle-searches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/591589\/","title":{"rendered":"23-year-old from Ottawa facing gun charges after home, vehicle searches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The provincial police\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OPP_ER\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">guns and gangs unit is laying multiple Criminal Code<\/a> charges after seizing firearms from a 23-year-old.<\/p>\n<p>In a press release, officers shared that search warrants took place at two homes and a vehicle in Ottawa\u2019s south end on Riverside Drive and in Orl\u00e9ans on Willow Avenue. Multiple units from the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) were involved, including the auto theft and towing team and the Ottawa Police Service\u2019s tactical unit. <\/p>\n<p>As a result, police seized a 12-gauge double-barreled sawed-off shotgun, a 12-gauge shotgun, ammunition and a cell phone.<\/p>\n<p>The accused, from the nation\u2019s capital is facing charges of:<\/p>\n<p>Unauthorized possession of a firearm <\/p>\n<p>Unauthorized possession of a prohibited firearm <\/p>\n<p>Possession of a prohibited weapon <\/p>\n<p>Possession of a prohibited firearm with ammunition <\/p>\n<p>Knowledge of unauthorized possession of a firearm- two counts<\/p>\n<p>He was released from custody following a bail hearing and is scheduled to appear in court on April 23. <\/p>\n<p>According to statistics from the OPP, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opp.ca\/ar2024\/work.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">its firearms analysis and tracing enforcement program traces the majority<\/a> (87 per cent) of guns officers seize from the U.S. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The provincial police\u2019s guns and gangs unit is laying multiple Criminal Code charges after seizing firearms from a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591590,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-591589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}