A drug raid on a downtown apartment building netted drugs, cash, and a knife Saturday.
City police executed a search warrant at a residential unit located in the apartment building on Main Street East.
Officers with the North Bay Police Service’s Street Crime Unit arrested and charged the male tenant:
Leslie Robert Zielinski, age 45 with:
- one count of possession of methamphetamine for the purpose of trafficking;
- one count of possession of property obtained by crime under $5,000;
- one count of possession of cocaine;
- one count of possession of morphine; and
- one count of possession of a prohibited weapons.
While executing the search warrant, police also arrested, searched and charged a 37-year old North Bay man for possession of three methamphetamine pills, which police seized as evidence.
As a result of the search of the apartment and of Zielinski, police seized:
- 60 Methamphetamine tablets;
- Three Hydromorph Contin tablets;
- Under a gram of cocaine;
- $540 in Canadian currency; and
- a knife.
Both accused were released from custody with court appearances scheduled for October 18th.
