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Husband, wife face string of charges after Aylesford bust...
KENTVILLE — A husband and wife facing a slew of charges from a drug bust in Aylesford appeared Monday in Kentville provincial court.
Alfred Ernest Anthony Thibault, 55, and Marlene May Thibault, 49, did not enter pleas and return to court May 7.
Mr. Thibault, who faces 44 charges, has been in custody since his arrest last Friday and will stay in jail until his next court appearance. Ms. Thibault, who faces 17 charges, is free on an undertaking.
More charges are possible, police say. The alleged offences include possessing drugs for trafficking, several weapons counts, charges of possessing stolen property and allegations under the Liquor Control Act and the Excise Act.
On Monday, police displayed some of the seized material to the media, including cans and bags of marijuana, packages of cocaine, thousands of dollars in Canadian funds, and weapons including shotguns, a .22-calibre rifle with scope and a derringer handgun.
Police stopped the Thibaults on Highway 1 in Auburn on Friday before using a warrant to search their home, a two-storey structure set back from the road behind another house on Victoria Road. What appear to be a greenhouse and Quonset hut are next to the house.
About 12 members of Kings RCMP, Annapolis Valley Traffic Services, the Halifax RCMP drug section and the local street crime enforcement unit comprised of Kings RCMP and Kentville police spent several hours searching the site.
Officers seized 3.5 kilograms of cocaine, 5.5 kilograms of marijuana, 2.3 kilograms of hashish, LSD, prescription pills such as Dilaudid, OxyContin and morphine, illegal cigarettes, tobacco and liquor, thousands of dollars worth of stolen property, $180,000 in cash and 20 firearms. Some of the weapons were loaded and others had been stolen.
Const. Les Kakonyi of Kings RCMP said the investigation has been going on for six months, and there have been other arrests and seizures in that time.
He said Friday's bust will have a major impact on the Annapolis Valley drug trade, likening the operation to "the big-box store of dope in the Valley."
"Eight pounds of coke is a huge amount (of drugs) just in itself," Const. Kakonyi said.
Police have not given a dollar estimate of the haul, but said four to five grams of marijuana could go into a joint and as little as one-quarter of a gram could be considered a cocaine hit, depending on the user. That would make the seizure the equivalent of more than 1,000 marijuana joints and 14,000 hits of cocaine.
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