Three people facing drug, weapons charges following search of Sydney, N.S., home

A Cape Breton Regional Police vehicle is pictured.

Three people are facing drug and weapons-related charges following the search of a home in Sydney, N.S., Thursday.

An investigation by the Cape Breton Regional Police Street Crime Unit led to the search of a residence on Alexandria Street where police say officers seized:

• cocaine
• three firearms
• ammunition
• two prohibited weapons
• property believed to have been obtained by crime

Forty-one-year-old Ryan Matthew Chipman of Sydney, 62-year-old Robert Joseph MacLean from New Waterford, and 24-year-old Kaitlyn Dawn Chisholm of Grand Mira North have each been charged with:

• possession for the purpose of trafficking cocaine
• possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000
• four counts of careless use/storage of firearms and ammunition
• three counts of unauthorized possession of a firearm
• two counts of possession of a prohibited weapon
• five counts of possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose
• three counts of possession of a firearm knowing possession was unauthorized

All there were scheduled to appear in Sydney provincial court on Friday.

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