Man wanted in RCMP, border agent drug probe arrested in Winnipeg

A man wanted in an RCMP and Canada Border Services Agency drug-trafficking probe was arrested by city police this week.

On Tuesday, Mounties asked Winnipeg Police Service officers to go to a city home where their suspect had recently taken up residence.

City police arrested the suspect at a home on the first block of Goodfellow Way, in a small neighbourhood just north of Club Regent Casino, shortly before 10 p.m. that same day. Police seized a few grams of cocaine from the suspect.

After executing a search warrant on the home, officers found a loaded semi-automatic rifle and a loaded semi-automatic shotgun, various ammunition, just over 400 grams of cocaine, just over three kilograms of drug cutting agent, drug trafficking paraphernalia and about $150,000 in cash.

Christopher James Athwal, 37, has been charged with several firearms offences, along with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking and possession of the proceeds of property obtained by crime over $5,000. He was held in custody.