CALEB NICKERSON
SMITHS FALLS Jan. 21, 2020
An Ontario man was given a shock last week after spotting some of his stolen property on front page of THE EQUITY … while he was printing it.
Mike Stevens, who works at . . .
Performance Printing in Smiths Falls, was helping print last week’s copy of THE EQUITY on Jan. 21 when he spied a familiar strap in a picture on the front page about a drug bust that also turned up some firearms.
He told The Smiths Falls Record News that he recognized the guns in the picture, as one had a strap that was commandeered from a beer cooler. He also stated that he’d had 15 guns stolen in a break and enter last fall, and after contacting the police after seeing the picture, sure enough, the serial numbers matched.
“I hope to get them back this week,” he is quoted as saying in the article, which was published online on Jan. 22.
The guns were seized as part of a bust that also saw the seizure of large amounts of cocaine and methamphetamine from several residences in Ottawa, Gatineau and Chapeau. Four people, including a 39-year-old man from Chapeau and Gatineau, were arrested on a variety of drug trafficking and firearms charges.
THE EQUITY could not reach Stevens in time for print.
