Weapons, drugs seized by RCMP during raids in Rosetown, La Ronge area

RCMP officers seized caches of weapons and drugs this week during raids in Rosetown and in the La Ronge district.

According to the Mounties, at about 6 a.m. on Wednesday, officers from the Rosetown detachment were joined by members of the North Battleford and Moose Jaw RCMP Crime Reduction Teams, the Saskatchewan RCMP Emergency Response Team and Combined Traffic Services Section to execute a search warrant at a house in Rosetown as part of a weapons investigation.

Police said in a release that four people were taken into custody, but a woman later was released without charges.

According to the Mounties, a subsequent search of the house turned up a sawed-off shotgun, a sawed-off rifle, a large amount of ammunition, imitation firearms, hashish packaged for sale, illicit cannabis, scales and packaging material.

Three men — ages 23, 28 and 31 — all were charged with attempted murder while using a prohibited firearm, police said, as well as a litany of weapons-related offences.

The RCMP said the three men were remanded into custody. They’re to be back in court on Monday.

Knives, a machete and a hatchet seized during a raid on a house in the La Ronge area. (RCMP/Submitted)

Then, on Thursday at around 9:50 a.m., officers from the La Ronge RCMP General Investigation Section raided a house in the La Ronge area as part of an ongoing drugs and weapons investigation.

A gun and magazine seized in an RCMP raid on a house in the La Ronge area. (RCMP/Submitted)

Police said a 47-year-old man was arrested after the search warrant was executed.

The RCMP said a search of the property found a handgun with the serial number defaced, approximately four ounces of suspected cocaine, a sum of cash in both Canadian and U.S. currency, a crossbow, drug paraphernalia, knives, a machete and a hatchet.

The man was charged with a lengthy list of weapons offences as well as possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine and possession of the proceeds of crime.

He was to appear in La Ronge Provincial Court on Friday.