The parents of two young children are facing drug, firearm and child endangerment charges after police searched a southwest Edmonton home and found fentanyl pills, marijuana, several firearms and $90,000 cash.
The children were apprehended by the Child at Risk Response Team, Edmonton police said in a news release Wednesday.
The man and woman were arrested and charged on Friday, following a four-month police investigation.
“Search warrants for the residence were expedited after investigators learned that two children, an infant and a toddler, were also residing in the southwest Edmonton residence and potentially at risk,” police said.
Investigators who searched the residence found 109 fentanyl pills, marijuana in various forms, two handguns and more than $90,000 in cash.
The parents can’t be named to protect the identities of the children, police said.
They face these charges:
- Two counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking (fentanyl and marijuana)
- Production of a controlled substance (marijuana grow)
- Simple possession (THC gummies)
- Two counts of possession of a restricted firearm
- Two counts of careless storage of a firearm
- Possession of a loaded firearm
- Prohibited magazine
- Firearm with serial number defaced
- Two counts of possession of body armour under the Body Armour Control Act
- Two counts of causing a child to be in need of intervention under the Child, Youth and Family Enhancement Act
- Two counts of abandoning/exposing a child to risk under the Drug Endangered Children Act