Holiday drug bust

Police officers made a small dint in the drug trafficking trade on Lethbridge streets during December but the battle is far from over.

“As soon as we remove them someone else is going to come in a fill that void. What is helping is the intelligence and information sharing between agencies,” Staff Sgt. Wes Houston of ALERT’s Combined Forces Special Enforcement Unit (CFSEU)-Lethbridge, told media Thursday afternoon.

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Lending home out for grow-op lands man one year house arrest

Friends willing to testify a former Okotoks homeowner was not helping grow marijuana in his Cimarron home, may have saved him from going to jail.

Daniel Bridgman received a two-year conditional sentence for marijuana production in Okotoks Provincial Court Dec. 4. Bridgman admitted to lending out his home to his brother for the grow-op, but said he didn’t live in the home or assist with cultivating the plants.

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