Drug Unit seize significant quantities of cocaine, marihuana and hashish

OTTAWA - On Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2014, the Ottawa Police Service Drug Unit with the assistance of the Tactical Team executed 4 Controlled Drugs and Substances Act warrants at residences in the 400 block of Leitrim Rd, the 100 block of Castlegreen Priv, the 0-100 block of Haxby Priv, and the 1100 block of Meadowlands Dr.

The warrant executions were the culmination of an investigation that began in mid November, 2014. In the early stages of the investigation investigators identified and disrupted a drug trafficking network that was smuggling marihuana through the mail to communities in the Canadian North, where the street value of the drug increases exponentially compared to the Ottawa market. With assistance from Canada Post, drug investigators seized 668.55 grams of marihuana (valued at $6,685.50 in Ottawa) concealed within 12 cans of coffee that were being mailed to Nunavut.

Included in the items seized as a result of the drug warrant execution on December 17th were:

As a result of the investigation, Elia AWAD, 55 year old of Ottawa is charged with:

George ABOU-EID, 46 year old of Ottawa is charged with:

George AWAD, 60 year old of Ottawa is charged with:

Steven RAY, 24 year old of Ottawa is charged with:

Andrea GOLUCH, 37 year old of Ottawa is charged with:

Sarah GUY, 19 year old of Ottawa is charged with;

Julie ROBINSON, 26 year old of Ottawa is charged with:

Eli Joseph AWAD, 22 year old of Ottawa is charged with:

Christopher CAMPBELL, 39 year old of Ottawa is outstanding and will be charged with:

Adla AWAD, 84 year old of Ottawa is outstanding and will be charged with:

Steven RAY was held in custody at his Show Cause hearing and given a court date of December 19th, 2014.

Elia AWAD and George ABOU-EID were held in custody at their Show Cause hearings and given court dates on December 23rd, 2014.

George AWAD, Eli Joseph AWAD, Andrea GOLUCH, Sarah GUY, and Julie ROBINSON were released on Promises to Appear with court dates on the14th of January, 2015.