{"id":621408,"date":"2026-04-22T16:40:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621408\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T16:40:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T16:40:21","slug":"youth-wanted-on-gatineau-drug-warrant-found-in-ottawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/621408\/","title":{"rendered":"Youth wanted on Gatineau drug warrant found in Ottawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ottawapolice.ca\/en\/news\/youth-charged-with-drug-related-offences-drugs-seized.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">young person is facing several charges involving drugs after an investigation<\/a> in the downtown core by Ottawa police.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said in a press release, they opened the case with the ByWard Market Central Neighbourhood Resource Team, which was looking into a residence within the area receiving complaints from people about suspected drug activity. <\/p>\n<p>In the investigation, officers found that one of the suspects was wanted on an outstanding warrant in Gatineau for drug possession. As a result, police conducted a traffic stop, leading to the arrest of a youth.<\/p>\n<p>They also seized about 100 grams of suspected fentanyl and money.<\/p>\n<p>The youth is facing offences of:<\/p>\n<p>Possession for the purpose of trafficking<\/p>\n<p>Failure to comply with an undertaking (three counts)<\/p>\n<p>Possession of proceeds of property obtained by crime under $5,000<\/p>\n<p>The case is still open, and officers are continuing the investigation, the release notes. <\/p>\n<p>Police have been receiving several tips of drug trafficking across the city, including a bust that led to weapons being seized. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, officers searched the 800 block of Walkley Road in Riverside Park South and the 100 block of Silvermoon Crescent in Avalon. They took <a href=\"https:\/\/ottawa.citynews.ca\/2026\/04\/13\/tactical-unit-executes-two-search-warrants-in-drug-trafficking-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">two people into custody who were charged with several drug<\/a> and weapon offences.<\/p>\n<p>This came after several reports from the public of a man believed to be trafficking substances. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A young person is facing several charges involving drugs after an investigation in the downtown core by Ottawa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":621409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":{"0":"post-621408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ottawa","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-ottawa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621408","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=621408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/621408\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/621409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=621408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=621408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=621408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}