13 guns seized from West St. Paul homes

Two men have been charged with a number of firearms offences after an RCMP investigation into illegal weapons in West St. Paul yielded the seizure of more than a dozen firearms last month.

RCMP investigators from the Manitoba Integrated Law Enforcement Team, which probes organized and serious crime in the province, began looking into the two suspects on a tip from the Canada Border Services Agency.

Officers obtained warrants to search two homes, one on Pipeline Road and the other on Griffin Way, on Sept. 11.

Between the two houses, Mounties found 13 guns, including two that were sawed off, about 20,000 rounds of ammunition and several high-capacity magazines that had been altered to hold more ammunition than is legally allowed.

Ravinder Chahal, 48, is charged with 11 firearms offences. Kulwinder Chahal, 38, is charged with 12 firearms offences, including two of possessing a weapon obtained by crime.

Both were held in custody.